As an application gets more complex what starts to matter is general design, software architecture, performance, compile times and language agnostic features.

Obsession with language features or syntax tends to move people towards building castles in the sky and being too obsessed with code rather than the software that actually runs on a physical machine. A lot of fancy features usually come at quite high runtime or compile time costs with not really meaningful benefits in a large software system.

Unless you're writing software explicitly for the sake of staring at code, unopinionated and simple, fast and pragmatic languages that get out of the way are the tool of choice for good reason.