Typically, what's nicer is the absence of other features that interfere with the important ones.

For example, Prolog isn't a general purpose functional or imperative language: you can assert, retract and query facts in the automatically managed database, risking only incorrect formulas, inefficiencies and non-monotonicity accidents, but not express functions, types, loops, etc. which could have far more general bugs.

I like how classes escape closures but then dependency injection frameworks have to work around that because now it is hard to think of construction as passing arguments to functions in the correct order.

I am so glad LLMs eliminate all of that and just call functions in the right order.

Absolutely. In the same direction as some people I've heard along the lines of "Anything you can do with language X, can be done with assembler, just have some routines for that in your stash"