[Martinsos]

I think there will always be a trade-off between "one way to do things" (opinionated approach) vs flexibility - the thing is, we need both, depending on the use case and the person using the language.

But I do think we are falling behind with opinionated approaches. I am guessing that is because experts are usually the most prominent in communities, they are directing the ecosystem, and they prefer flexibility and power vs opinionated approach.

Ruby on Rails was an opinionated approach made by non-expert that grew into something really big because of that. I am also trying to contribute in that direction with highly opinionated solution for web app development (https://wasp-lang.dev).