> If there's something that really gets me annoyed is when I run into a limitation that seem completely arbitrary but intentional. It's not there because of the technical limits of the hardware, or because the compiler isn't clever enough, but purely because somebody intentionally decided 'nope, you don't get to do this particular thing you can do all day otherwise'.

Just... exactly this. Hate that so much. I cannot articulate how much I agree with what you have said here.