It'd argue that the constraints of writing lower-level code can actually lead to producing better code. For instance, idiomatic C, Rust and Zig is to pass a buffer into some function, that it then fills, and the caller handles the output. This leads to having more pure, side-effect free functions, compared to the approach some higher-level languages will take of having the function allocate some stuff in its body, process it, maybe do some IO, and pass it to another function. They encourage "imperative shell, functional core", because of how difficult it is to manage memory/ownership if every random function is allocating promiscuously.
Low-level languages encourage the use of clean ownership patterns, which ultimately leads to cleaner design.
