Keeping it simple works wonders but you can't do it alone. A language with a culture of making things complex so as to achieve some standard of perfection, and/or with many developers simply not knowing how to stay out of trouble and not being able to tell what's fragile and what's trustworthy, will make it harder to "keep it simple."

I agree that when programming mostly alone one can get by very nicely in any reasonably popular language since its popularity necessarily means that it's workable in the areas where it's typically used. I disagree that languages can not get in your way if you know what you're doing once you're not doing it alone.