Plenty of people have brought up the "looks ugly/terrible/dumb" criticism and they seem to be sticking with the "total private encapsulation" proposal. Persona

Plenty of people have brought up the "looks ugly/terrible/dumb" criticism and they seem to be sticking with the "total private encapsulation" proposal. Personally I don't have a problem with it, since Typescript offers "soft" access modifiers that work fine for any use cases I can think of.