Making a language feel more familiar to the developers that would likely be using it will probably speed up its adoption and decrease the learning curve for new developers. I don't understand what is so enraging about that.
People still complain about it, but somehow, it became one of the most popular languages on the planet.
And how is it welcoming to newcomers to essentially be upfront asking them "right, now which syntax will you use?"
Unless the answer of course is just to nudge them all in the direction of the one owned by a massive corporation with more money than some countries ...