(your last link should have been https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/cs...)

I don't work in C#, but I must say, these seem like great features to me, and not too crufty/bloaty at all.

Scrolling through the other recent feature additions, they all look like things that would make a language feel smoother rather than more noisy. But again, IANAC#D.