Of all the verbose aspects of Java that you could complain about (getters/setters, checked exceptions, no automatic casting or type inference...) you had to pick operator overloading?!?

Coming from a C++ background, I consider Java's policy on operator overloading to be positively enlightened. There's plenty to complain about in the language, but this isn't one of them. I don't want to program in an ascii-art language.