I think there is clarity to be gained from the history of programming.
Programming went from very very hard (punch cards) to write to very easy to write (intelisense). And we also went from code being mostly written to code being mostly read.
With each step there was a move to either make best practices more verbose or terser. Verboseness has been a solution to defects. Better languages have been a solution to verboseness. For example: when typing bugs became common, hungarian notation became a best practice. The noise was an acceptable tradeoff. When better type checking became available, hungarian notation was abandoned because it produced noise. The compiler already did al the work for you. Improvements in the tools happened at the same time as improvements in the language.
All of this was motivated by growing code complexity resulting in increasing team sizes.
Math is also growing in complexity and collaboration is increasingly digital. But so far, I have only seen tool improvements, the language has mostly been stuck. If the language does not evolve tools will evolve much much slower.
