I probably agree with half of these criticisms, but they are all pretty minor. I wish ruby 1.9 would get a cleanup, but I think it is just getting more features.
Just because they are given no options by their language of choice and are forced into following strict and arbitrary rules, they think a language that provides options is 'unclean' and 'messy'.
What is wrong with a language that lets you express yourself in whichever way seems most intuitive to you? The only thing that comes to mind is future maintainability when the code changes owners.
