Is there a specific aspect of language design that you see as problematic? I agree that it can be perceived as "way too many things to keep track of". I think most of it are small, atomic changes designed to reduce boilerplate that can be intuitively understood (like collection literals, additions to pattern matching and null-coalescing operators). You don't have to spend mental effort on these and if there is a scenario where more idiomatic syntax is available - the analyzer has a good chance of catching it and providing an autofix suggestion.