Lets welcome input lke this. Value people who don't wear Drupal- eyeflaps yet. People whom are not pre-occupied. People who can give feedback without the pollution of knowing the history or reasons. People who touch problematic areas in Drupal without being afraid of being told 'then go and fix it'.
You are absolutely right. Now that I think of the time when I began with Drupal. I said things like "the menu system is crap" because I didn't know how it worked and used taxonomy_menu instead. Because I thought "categories" is Drupal's menu system. If you read things like "installation is bad" or "administration sucks" or "foo is overly complicated", it's mostly not because it is really bad but that it is not so easy that it can be understood at the first glance. And there we need to improve. We can do this either by writing *very* clear documentation (or by providing other help in the form of wizards, agents or task oriented menus like we have partially now) or we can really try to make the workflow simpler by figuring out what a user would expect how it should work when he has absolutely no idea of the actual/current workflow. Konstantin