Yeah I spent so many years with C++ that it turned me off complex langauges for good. It is also an age thing. When you are early in your career it can make sense to invest time in a complex and capable language.

The later you are in your career the less that will pay off. Efforts are amortized across fewer remaining years in the industry.

Also it depends a lot on the person I think. I am simply not good at dealing with complexity. I know programmers who can keep a lot of things in their head at the same time and look at complex stuff easily. I am not like that.

I sketch a lot when looking through source code to make sense of it. I cannot just keep in my head everything I looked at.