Are we reading the same articles ? I see articles (like the one above) where people are sharing their excellent experience using the language as has been my ex

Are we reading the same articles ? I see articles (like the one above) where people are sharing their excellent experience using the language as has been my experience over the years of using it. A justification would be 'we hate this ugly thing, but we use it because it's cool', but that's not what I've been reading..