[ericssmith]

"You may not find it as such, but the language's kitchen-sink approach to features does have its drawbacks; I find that part of it manageable but that doesn't mean it's not complicated, it means I can deal with it."

I don't find the language to be a kitchen-sink at all. It is a fusion of OO and FP, and so would reasonably be expected to support features from each of those paradigms. And it does so quite nicely. It is very well designed for this purpose. However it does provide facilities that allows the libraries to become arguably complicated, especially if you are not used to them. But being unfamiliar with a library's API is not really the same thing as the language being unreadable or obfuscated.