Your arguments appear to be without merits or your are not very familar with other sections of this OS/2 World web site since you have said among other things; "I don't know why you think that stagnation is a good thing for this OS, but whatever floats your boat I suppose. Also, Symphony IS good, but its based upon SWTSwing which we do not yet have a good enough version to make Symphony run. OO is our only real option, and its a poor one in the shape it is in now".
While it is not known exactly what your current occupation is at this time and how many trade shows, seminars... you attend - what can be said to you is that if you were following the Lotus Development Corporation's strategies over the the years you might have known that they are having what is called a "Development Continuum" and from what was gathered quite recently is that the "Open" Lotus SmartSuite strategy which was embarked upon over a year ago has now morphed into Lotus Symphony and quite different from what you are saying here is what one is able to do with Lotus Symphony currently:
Quote; "Are you a Developer interested to learn more? The new IBM Lotus Symphony Developer's Toolkit for creating plug-ins and powerful composite applications is here. So, whether you are a IBM® Lotus® Notes® developer using LotusScript or a Java developer on Eclipse, you have the ability to leverage Lotus Symphony in your business applications".
"Get the Developer Toolkit"
http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspaAlso, this is what is known about SWT:
"SWT is the software component that delivers native widget functionality for the Eclipse platform in an operating system independent manner. It is analogous to AWT/Swing in Java with a difference - SWT uses a rich set of native widgets. Even in an ideal situation, industrial strength cross platform widget libraries are very difficult to write and maintain. This is due to the inherent complexity of widget systems and the many subtle differences between platforms. There are several basic approaches that have helped significantly to reduce the complexity of the problem and deliver high quality libraries. This article discusses one of them, the low level implementation techniques used to implement SWT on different platforms".
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-SWT-Design-1/SWT-Design-1.htmlAdditionally, to/in your mind... What do you think are the reasons why the following "BOUNTIES" were sponsored?

1. " SWTSwing ($175) - (2007.08.02)"
http://www.os2world.com/content/view/14799/71/2. "Eclipse.org Standard Windowing Toolkit (SWT) OS/2 Port ($125)"
http://www.os2world.com/content/view/340/71/3. " Native OS/2 Port of Lotus Notes (Hannover) ($50) - (2007.04.13)"
http://www.os2world.com/content/view/347/71/4. " OS/2 native port of Java 6 ($340) - (2006.02.19)"
http://www.os2world.com/content/view/337/71/5. " OS2 & eCS kernel ($75) - (2007.03.15)"
http://www.os2world.com/content/view/346/71/All in all, it may take time; but, eventually we will complete the journey with OS/2.

Have a nice day!