You said it would be a showstopper for most people, suggesting that a lack of if-statements is a fundamental problem that needs to be worked around.

I just showed that there exists serious, non-absurd arguments against if-statements, namely that they are strictly inferior to if-expressions, which again are strictly inferior to pattern matching, since they significantly reduces boolean blindness.

At some point (or rather for over a 1000 years) “most” people computed π by polygon approximation, but it turns out that method has severe limitations that more modern methods avoid. Should we still have chosen the method that “most” people were familiar with, over applying infinite series to the problem?