This sounds in line with Google creating go: restrict the language features so you can hire mass quantities of programmers and be reasonably sure they won’t go off the rails. It’s fine for what it’s for but doesn’t seem like that should be the goal of most programming projects?

Especially with AI copilots getting better, it feels like we’re headed for a point where you’re either capable of architecting complex systems, or there isn’t much software for you to write: other industries tend to have rote work for beginners while they gain skills, but in software rote work tends to get automated away. AI can help people learn faster, but given what AI has proven good at, I expect more of the gains will go to expert productivity. (or non-programmer domain experts)