[AndrewCHM]

"I’ve heard a few reasons:" ... that you've considered, then cherry picked two of them, so you can confirm your views?

To properly reason why the approach is wrong, shouldn't you consider all significant reasons, including backwards compatibility as probably the biggest one?

"New language that learns from the mistakes of languages before it" would generally be better than "language and runtime that is keeping compatibility with a programming language that was heavily rushed just to fill a feature point for a web browser"

One might as well state that the grass is green and sky is blue, no?