You know, I used to think that design was a nuanced grappling of complex tradeoffs, but you convinced me: those you disagree with are just "brain-dead" "idiots". I think there is a relevant quote by Charles Bukowski about confidence, but it escapes me...
There often is nuance. I haven’t seen any positive for this feature, nor here, nor in the relevant github issues for the languages in question, which were quite argumentative.
But feel free to give me the nuance to this design issue that you so miss.