from a high level overview, this seems to echo the design tension between perl and python ; "there is one way to do it" yes or no! The creativity of perl with its (almost) poetic sensibility (and many synonymous expression forms) versus a "just the facts" python science culture..

In the case of Modern C++, the heavy emphasis on performance plus syntax density, take away the fun parts (to me) and leave one with neither fun synonyms nor just-the-facts simplicity!

Isn't this sort of hair-splitting one reason Theology has a bad name amongst some intellectuals ?