In the same sense you could argue Python, as a programming language (some would argue it's not one, but rather a scripting language), is poorer in heuristics than ABAP or Java or C#, and yet it's the #1 choice for most projects nowadays for its simplicity and flexibility and easiness of use and low cost of resources and <insert your advantage here>...
Interest reading:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2003-October/025932.html
Makes you wonder whether all those encapsulation features you do have in heavier, richer OO languages are really necessary when you assume the programmers are not dumb creatures... ;-)