[kamaal]

>>It seems like the original authors were convinced most of the complexity of modern languages was unjustified and have slowly proven themselves incorrect over the years

Python was the same way a few years back. People would give elaborate lectures on why Perl's features were so bad, only that they agreed to add many such features to Python within a decade, even at the extreme act of breaking backwards compatibility.

This is seems to be a common arc to so many things. When you start you are all about principles and as you age, you realise practicalities of every day life demand making lots of tradeoffs and deviations from founding principles.