Yes, and while I'm generally of the view that Smalltalk has lessons to teach, of course they aren't all good ones - in particular I sometimes feel that the way

Yes, and while I'm generally of the view that Smalltalk has lessons to teach, of course they aren't all good ones - in particular I sometimes feel that the way construction and initialization is done in Smalltalk has tended to incentivise having getters and setters for every internal variable, and has perhaps contributed to the rather brittle style of program construction that is decried as part of "everything that's wrong with OOP".