Totally agree. A lot of people address the lack of generics as merely a lack of a convenience feature. Sure, one aspect of generics are that they allow for more

Totally agree. A lot of people address the lack of generics as merely a lack of a convenience feature. Sure, one aspect of generics are that they allow for more flexible types that help get around rewriting trivial variants, but that is hardly their primary function. Generics allow for the use of generalized functions while preserving arbitrarily complex typings to be preserved.