[panic]

Exactly. If simplicity were the most important thing, we'd all be writing code in Forth or some sort of macro assembler.

[WalterBright]

It's true that assembler is actually pretty simple. It's just that the simple instructions combine in hard to understand ways.

[xorcist]

You could have said Lisp instead, and it's not hard to find people making that case.

It's a tradeoff between designing your own complex building blocks or having very complex tools with thousands of them ready-made.

I won't pretend to have an easy answer, but I do know I personally prefer when people err on the side of simpler tools.