I don’t know if the language is yours, but I think the wording and its intended meaning (the sentence starting with ‘The core implementation…’) may be one of the most concise statements of my personal programming language design ethos. I’m jealous that I didn’t come up with it. I will certainly credit you when I steal it for my WIP language.

I will be adding the following to my “Primary Design Criteria” list: The core design and implementation of any language feature is explicitly targeted at the efficient creation of opinionated, composable abstractions rather than providing those abstractions at the language level.