But the point is that if you've got reflection (and an expressive base language, and a powerful enough type system, etc), you probably don't need macros. They're a heavy mallet when you almost always need a more precise tool. And the result of using macros is almost always worse than using that more precise tool - it will be harder to debug, it will play worse with tools like LSPs, it will be more complicated to read and write, it will be slower, etc.

I think macros are a necessarily evil in Rust, and I use them myself when writing Rust, but I think it's absolutely fair to judge macros harshly for being a worse form of many other language features.