Any PL that is widely adopted is going to have a lot of critics, including some from the angry agenda school. The compiler writers need to weight all the inputs so they know what to focus their copious spare time on.
This was entertaining:
"He's like Goldilocks, scala's too complicated, fantom's too simple"
http://www.scala-lang.org/node/7698
Yes, I should write this, but I'm not smart enought to stop myself to type it. After reading the definition my mind instantly draw his face...