I think most people who actually use Lua come away marveling at its elegance and simplicity. The ones that don’t get stuck at “arrays start at 1?! What a garbage language!” In fact, this is a fairly good way to tell if someone has a well-reasoned opinion about Lua ;) (I will put up Go as a counter-example: “hurr durr no generics” is a meme complaint but it remains one once you actually use the language…)