Scott's style is also to be quasi-entertaining. In my opinion he uses this style of pointing out the dark corners not to inform but to make the reader/listener feel a part of the "epic struggle" / journey dialogue. It seems to work quite well to sell books, consulting and as a pedagogical conceit and is worth emulating.

Bjarne has never had such pretense and his writing also reflects his personal style. And he will tell you quite honestly that some distasteful aspects exist because C++ was a language created to be used (backwards compatibility is a feature, adding keywords/syntax only when necessary, etc) not that "nothing is wrong."

Any rational discussion of programming languages is one of relative merits, applicability to specific problems, and personal prefs, rather than one of absolute truths.