I respect your experience and opinion. You stated you were new to Nim and that your impression of the language differs from mine - that's fine. I've been using Nim since pre-2015 and my impression of the language is different from when I first started.
I'm not sure what you mean by "nimble" when you describe the compiler. I'm not referring to its user experience I'm referring to how difficult the compiler backends are to extend / maintain. If you find Nim's compiler easy to hack on - bravo to you, you should join the core dev team, or consider contributing to the compiler if you can! I'm not really interested in newcomer's impressions of Nim to be honest, and I don't say that to sound callous, it's just I know what attracted me to Nim and I know what direction I want to see Nim taken in and which direction I don't want to see it taken in. I believe you lack a lot of historical knowledge and context when it comes to this project's history. One final note - the hill to die on comment is important as I don't have issue with these effects per se. I just don't think there are far more important fish to fry / things to fix in regards to Nim as a whole.
