I think it's flaws, only somewhat addressed in recent revisions, are better known now than they were in the mid-'90s when I learned and started using it, plus the industry wide ... obsession? with OO and especially class based OO has subsided. So someone with good taste who reads and trusts what he reads of these details could, yeah, probably not legitimately loathe it, but at least decide without using it that it wasn't for him.
I changed the initial use of loathe in this context to dislike, thanks for pointing that out.
