In your opinion. There are entire platforms, with literally millions of programmers, which say otherwise - like .NET or C++ for example.

My opinion? There's no point in calling a language better without qualifying a context or use-case. There are so many languages, with so many different (takes on) features, that it's frequently impossible to even meaningfully compare them. Much less to say which is better.

In other words, I can agree with your statement, that "smaller languages are better", for example in fitting your tastes or in ease of implementation. I won't agree that smaller languages are "better" universally, however, because it's trivial to show the contrary. It's enough to point to all the "transpilers", template- or macro-systems that are being written all the time, nearly always for small languages. If smaller is universally better, then how come so many people want more features and are willing to invest their time to write a transpiler?

Personally, I like small, elegant languages - but I also like the big, pragmatic languages, the weird and experimental languages, the special-purpose and exotic languages and so on. Each has its uses and may be a good tool in the hands of a professional.