[irishsultan]

> You also argue with hypotheticals (may...depend, likely be the case etc.). Why is that so?

Partly because my experience with Smalltalk has always been that my experience is less positive than what others claim to encounter (this is not just about refactoring, where at least once I wanted to rename a method, but this method name was also used in a different context where it shouldn't be renamed, typing would have made this irrelevant; but also about things like Monticello where I got far more conflicts and things that didn't work out of the box than I consider reasonable or knew how to handle). This may have been the way I got introduced to the platform, but it colors my skepticism about the generality of the observations.