I've felt that way at one point, but it is on you as to how far you want to push it. If you want to do C# like it's 2008, it won't stop you.

As for me, I take the good bits that I like and ignore the rest now. I resent only two changes. Firstly, eliminating null values for classes was a mistake, and you're trading one class of error (null data) for another (placeholder/default data). There's no plus as far as I can tell. Apps with the second error scenario are in an unknown state and that's not something you want lasting for too long. The second change I dislike is that the inverse indexing syntax starts from 1 instead of 0 to access the last item. That's idiotic.