Useful verbosity is fine to me. However, I never wish to see another line of COBOL, thank you very much.
This is a really good point, IMO. I've never written extensive amounts of Objective-C, but in my adventures I've had to bolt together GUIs with Objective-C++ and I learned to love the "verbose" nature of Obj-C calls whenever I had to dive back into the editor for a game engine or whatever because it meant I didn't have to rebuild so much state in my head.
What you want is for the complex things to be verbose and the simple things to be concise.
Objective-C makes everything verbose. It’s too far in the other direction. Memories of stringByAppendingString
This is going to sound absurd, but the only other language I had this experience with was Objective-C.
Verbosity is super underrated in programming. When I need to come back to something long after the fact, yes, please give me every bit of information necessary to understand it.