I think your latest comment clarifies a lot of things for me here... primary being that it's something language designer did not wanted... just that tool developers went ahead with because there wasn't somethinf else (or something better) they could use.

If that is indeed the case, I believe it's fair. Im not into language/compiler design etc., but if I have to take a guess, this is where metaprogramming would have helped, right? Like the ones provided by zig or rust?