We're going to be agreeing to disagree here. I think there are languages that do what you want: Go seems like a good recent example, but in general terms I find keeping the "reading age" of code low to make comprehension in the large more difficult. Why, for instance, do I keep reading a for loop followed by an if followed by a continue when filter/where exists?

Again, this is just a difference in attitude, but I find verbosity in general just cognitive noise that would be better spent with precise, higher-level constructs.