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You can't add extra features to the language without increasing the cognitive load in deciding when to use the extra features. You're still making everything else more difficult, it's just a distributed difficulty where everything is made more difficult by a miniscule amount, rather than one particular thing made difficult by a large amount.
I don't think that sentence would get added complexity. "adopted child" will likely be a 7-8 letter word using the same root as stepfather. Stepfather is a word that you can't derive from knowing "adoption" which make things harder for the language speaker. You can't derive spouse from knowing the word marriage.