> many important language features boil down to forcing users to do the right thing
this just causes the users to use another language for their projects instead
this just causes the users to use another language for their projects instead
A language that provides a lot of freedom when it comes to expressiveness without offering much in the way of constraints (to truly convey the purpose of a given piece of code with the least amount of ambiguity possible) will almost definitely turn into utter crap in contact with junior developers, and will often be a source of pain for more experienced ones once the project is nontrivial, whether they realize it or not.
Not to mention working together with more junior people, in which case it will be you doing the hand-holding instead, because the tools don't