Objective-C has verbosity that's very expressive and serves a purpose.

While true, I find I can do just as much in other languages that done have such an ugly verbose syntax.

It’s ugly for a reason but that still means it’s ugly.

Eh, I'd argue that its verbosity is less ugly than say Java.

I can see why people might thing square brackets are ugly, though I prefer it to the double-colon and angle bracket fest that is C++, but what else do you find uniquely ugly about Objective-C? Infix operators are nifty and promote clarity.

I guess hours was an understatement. The point is that I guess most people hate the style on first sight, I definitely hated it. But it's been a while and now I like it a lot, the verboseness makes the code and intentions clear (you just have to read a bit).

If it was the only open on iOS then yes, I could live with it.

It’s not - thank god - so I don’t have to. So I won’t.