Me neither, as much as I love that standard and the people involved in making it happen :) Just getting the implementation details right is at least a life time

Me neither, as much as I love that standard and the people involved in making it happen :) Just getting the implementation details right is at least a life time effort. And like you say, a lot could be improved and some is still missing. But as a solid, mature foundation; it beats the mine field that is exploratory language design.