Also dropping here the list of contrarian views op listed in the next article:

Language Design: Popular, but Wrong

1. static members
2. properties
3. <> for generics
4. [] for arrays
5. Type ident instead of ident: Type
6. having if-then-else and switch/case and a ternary operator
7. having both modifiers and annotations
8. async/await
9. separate namespaces for methods and fields
10. method overloading
11. namespace declarations doubling as imports
12. special syntax for casting
13. using cast syntax for things that are not casts
14. requiring () for methods without parameters