No need to defend yourself, I share this sentiment as well. If I'm going to spend time writing and reading a lot of code in a new learning language, I want my previous knowledge to be somewhat reusable.
For this reason I was able to get into Odin as opposed to Zig because of some similarities with Swift Syntax as well how easy it is to parse.
The less I need to rewire my brain to use xyz language, the greater the chance of me getting into it.
If my life depended on it, I could get over such a shallow reason to dismiss a language but fortunately it doesn't and that's why I write Swift rather than Rust.
When I was a kid learning BASIC, a lot of beginner examples in books used the (purely decorative) keyword LET for every assignment. Consequently I associate it with "coding like a baby who understands nothing" and still hate to write let to this day.