This is a tired, trolling post. Most of these issues have long been addressed as non-problems or personal preferences; when the author says "Incompetence? Politics?" what I hear is "people don't listen to me, probably because I don't know what I'm talking about". The attitude is confirmed by his/her conflating of stdlib gripes and language gripes - two very different sets of problems - and mixing requests for speed with requests for more lambda support, two things that are notoriously unlikely to go hand-in-hand.