Like I said, I use (and like) several languages that have Generics, and when I need to do something where it makes sense, I can reach for those. For me there was an advantage in having a language where it wasn't an option. Your (b) scenario is quite a strawman. I have seen plenty of good code using Generics, but sure, there is subset of code written using Generics that is not good, and I think it becomes easier to obfuscate code and make it hard to read if you have Generics, that might just by my bias, and I think I'm tainted from C++ and hopefully it will never become as bad as what you can encounter there.

I'm not trying to make out that Generics have no place in Computer Science. I was trying to make the case for it being nice that there was a language that didn't have it, and was building on the grandparent saying that he didn't miss it that often, which mirrors my experience with Go.