Don't talk rubbish. Nobody enjoys spending 10 hours to accomplish something that can be accomplished in an hour. Ofcourse we're trying to build compilers for nicer languages. Programming isn't going to become any less complex or unintuitive by sitting around wishing for better solutions: it's going to happen by studying existing technology, and using it to build better solutions.

What has "prevented" us from getting there sooner is purely our incompetence. It's becoming painfully clear to me that people have absolutely no idea about how a compiler works.