Sorry, I certainly didn't intend to spread FUD; I was just stating my opinion which, as I mentioned, is limited.

But if a language designer tells me "hey, if item B had existed when I created item A; I wouldn't have needed to create item A", that sounds like an improvement.

I don't really care for Groovy in either direction (it's not bad but it ain't great); but I fail to see how mentioning my opinion is trolling.