Strongly disagree. THE ENTIRE ETHOS of Smalltalk & Ruby is to leave things up to the object you're communicating with, rather than the call/send site.

Sure, you may not like that mindset, in which case, smalltalk/ruby are ABSOLUTELY not for you. You want something else.

Which is totally fine. Part of the reason behind the Cambrian-explosion of higher level programming paradigms since the 1960's is precisely because there are multiple ways to skin a cat, and different ways resonate with different folks.