I think your definitions are either overloaded, or perhaps even altogether broken. Simplicity and power are not mutually exclusive, yet you seem to be saying they are. I actually tend to find exactly the opposite -- the simplest things are very often the most powerful. (As a concrete example, consider a unix pipeline. Hooking the output from one program to the input from another is extremely simple, yet allows for amazingly powerful constructs.) I guess it might just be a matter of definitions, but I have to take issue with yours.