Seems to be enforcing ‘ubiquitous language’ at the machine level - not some kind of mathematical dual where one is invertible to the other - but enforcing soft skills as hard skills.
‘protobuf specs dont have enough information for us to codegen iceberg tables so we will write a new codegen spec language’
what makes a duck a duck?
when we know which tables we can find it in
Sorry if my language was unclear, I meant to highlight this line from the wiki article:
"There is no proposed mechanism of action by which the positions and motions of stars and planets could affect people and events on Earth in the way astrologers say they do that does not contradict well-understood, basic aspects of biology and physics."
Relevant here because it essentially says "there is no empirical basis for spooky action at a distance" which has been grounds for dismissal of such action-at-a-distance claims like 'the relative positions of celestial bodies influence events on the earth'.
This kind of empiricism has been used as grounds to not critically evaluate these claims. Everyone is certainly free to have their own reasons around why they do not want to evaluate such claims. For example some people only want to consider things that are easily falsifiable and subject to particular scientific practices. The wiki article goes on to mention how Carl Sagan refused to disavow astrology on these grounds (i.e. gravity is weak so stellar influence writ large ought to weak) while still leaving room for a disavowal if it were on firmer grounds. I do think your point about simplicity is salient here.
One reason I often hear astrology is not taken seriously by the scientific community, as in findings like 'athletes often have aries rising on their birth chart' are ignored and not evaluated further, is because there is no empirical foundation for the communication of the effects.