Having seen the posts about the new IO interface, I decided to steer clear from Zig. Looks like that fortuitious instinct was proven valid as this looks more and more like the verbosity from pre C++11 for different reasons but with a similar result.
This pattern (new language evolves to be as complex as the languages it was supposed to replace) seems familiar.
As being one of the post authors you mentioned, I don't think such posts should scare people from trying it out. Zig team is eager to discuss and break things if a better solution is found.
Such approach is not a great fit for those who treat Zig as a future job opportunity, but for personal and small-team projects it's _already_ a neat language with clear goals and great tooling.
This pattern (new language evolves to be as complex as the languages it was supposed to replace) seems familiar.