While that's true, verbose languages and crappy editors still add a tedium and frustration to programming. Perhaps it isn't deserved, and we should be fine even typing in double the amount of code, but it still feels bad. (Except for the people that love verbosity and boilerplate as it makes them feel like they're doing serious business.)

Also reading is important, and having concise, short code is a boon to understanding code. In most cases, every extra non-comment character is just a place for bugs or misunderstandings to hide.