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> It just seems like these kind of design choices needlessly add a barrier to entry for people who want to climb aboard.

Any experienced programmer knows syntax is a detail, and would not be deterred by that.

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By that logic, there was no value added in updating the syntax from ANSI C to C99: no reason to add double-slash comments, no reason to allow function-local variables to be declared and initialized where you use them instead of the top of the function, and no reason to omit a return statement for the main() function.

From your reasoning, it also follows that using infix notation instead of Polish notation for arithmetic does absolutely nothing to lower the learning curve.

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