[xelxebar]

It's not so much a matter of exhaustively listing pros and cons, but more a matter of appropriateness to the desired goal or goals IME. I seriously doubt that a comprehensive pro/con list can even be coherent. Is dynamic typing a pro or a con? Depends on to whom and even in what decade you ask. List comprehensions? Interpreted language? First class OOP? Any cost-benefit anaylsis will be highly context-dependent.

> I'm not here to defend tiresome strawmen.

I won't point out that you already tried to (contradiction intended). Perhaps a more interesting discussion would result if we defaulted to a more collaborative[0] stance here?

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle

[aquariusDue]

I don't have anything useful to add per se but I'd like to thank you for validating my intuition that pros and cons lists not only don't generalize as to be useful universally but also that the more "rigorous" you get with it the whole things evolves into an exercise of ridiculousness.

An example I like to give is the wood chipper. Pros it can do a lot of useful things around the yard (that you can list individually), cons it can chop your arm off. How many pros do you need to overcome that con? Though I'll admit there's a difference between "can" and "will", the latter hinging on improper use.

tl;dr I'm a bit tired with people glorifying a semi-useful cognitive device.