Thinking about this more, I think we need less expressive tools with less freedom.
Freedom = more ways it can fuck up. Which is more scary.
We don't need "easy to use". Easy to use just means "easy to make a big mess."
It probably needs to be hard to fuck up, less magic, not too expressive, but targeted on the problem. Constrain people, and they will still find a way.
I think making things easy to use has been over-hyped by idiot founders and investors who don't get the customers they pretend to understand. But yeah, reject me from YC 9 times, and don't fund my work...I guess being an indie dev/maker is more my style. Who wants to have an investor boss anyway?