Yeah.

One in-between option I have kicked around w/ people is offering interfaces that allow you to implement operator overloading (e.g. Numeric). Then you wouldn't have one-off or cutesy operator overloading, but would rather need to meet some minimum for the feature. (Or at least feel bad that you have a lot of UnsupportedOperationExceptions)

Java had/has a ton of potential, but they kept/keep adding features that make no sense to me, making the language much more complex without some obvious day-to-day stuff like list literals, map literals, map access syntax, etc.

Oh well.