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Try using the language a bit? Maybe you'll like it. The language isn't its implementation, and the guts are a mere 10 kloc of C code.
The FAQ is also a bit out of date -- all the built-in objects now have automated unit tests run on them, and the language is several years old by now.
That said, the language does constantly improve and become more consistent and therefore better. I present it as an example of a good language that can illustrate some excellent points wrt simplicity being fundamentally equal to power.
How many languages have you seen that can express exception handling try/catch style exclusively in the language itself? No VM support for it at all. And it can do it in 14 lines.
For languages that are both pretty-good and production stable, I'd assert Smalltalk and Objective-C. There's no reason anyone should have to do high-level programming in C++ or Java.