Most of the answers to your answers could be summarised with "principle of least surprise makes sense". That's why most/all methods ending with an "?" should return a boolean, mutable objects should warn/fail if used in context where immutable is expected, string encoding should not be possible to override, constants should be constant, things called threads should be threads...

Otherwise things are not consistent and confusing. Yes, with enough time you just learn all the tricks and start fighting for the status quo, bacuase that's how things always worked and it's ok. But is it?...