Interesting observation. In practice, I found coding in Perl 6 is much faster than in Perl 5, for example. One of the programs I converted was half as short. On the contrary, it's expressiveness let's me focus on the problem instead of trying to figure out whether my large loop of code is in order.
English is an expressive language as well, but I don't become paralyzed writing this comment.
I do agree that abstractions that reduce the amount of code you have to write can allow you to devote more brainpower to the code at hand. I would argue that global abstractions are generally inferior to local abstractions for this purpose though. If you make the language locally more complex (via defining terms i.e. functions) you can leave that complexity behind when you don't need it. If your language grammar is naturally complex you have to deal with that all the time.
As for English... Writer's block and futile rewriting cycles are real issues that basically every writer grapples with. On the other hand, coder's block isn't really a thing, and refactoring occurs infrequently compared to writing.
English is an expressive language as well, but I don't become paralyzed writing this comment.