fwiw Zig is taking its role as a low-level, bare bones "c replacement" as a core design constraint. For instance zig has eschewed from even fairly tame features like operator overloading because they're not considered in line with Zig's identity as a minimal, explicit language.

So feature creep is always a concern, but from what I understand Zig has a better chance at avoiding this than other projects due to the language's guiding philosophy.