If you don't like dialogs at all I don't know why you are getting so bent out of shape over this feature. Any webpage can do alert("look at me") and you actually HAVE to act on that.
What I don't get is how expressing my opinion -- necessarily in multiple comments, as people respond to my initial arguments or misinterpret them and I get back into the discussion, not to mention me being naturally chatty --, makes me "bent out of shape", "so easily offended", etc. over the feature.
How about not making personal characterizations?