I never really considered it a great aircraft, that will always be my opinion, sorry if it disagrees with yours but we are each entitled to our own - and it should never have been brought into that particular discussion!
Rest assured that anyone having a preference of one aircraft type over another does not disagree with my opinion - I have about 80 different opinions on what I think a nice aircraft is, based upon varied first hand experience. The fact that a person has an opinion at all about their preference of aircraft is great, it means that people are
flying! What
would worry me about type opinions would be if they were being expressed here based upon having "flown" the Microsoft FS version of the aircraft!
What I find disagreeable is the notion that one person might feel the need to discourage another person's choice of type needlessly - like by introducing it out of nowhere as the antithesis of the nice plane being discussed, and then the 150 seems to be presented as the shining example of dull. I'm not saying that the 150, or many other similar economy, mass produced aircraft have any particular merit as being charming to fly, they just get the job done. But for someone who is content to simply be safely and economically airborne, "getting the job done" is the goal - they are happy, and aviation is growing!
Or... the fellow who has rented a modest 150 for an afternoon stops by another airport to rub shoulders in the advanced flying environment of his dreams, and is rebuffed just because of his choice in type. He feels unwelcomed, returns the plane, and decides that MSFS is a better use of his time.
WE loose if that happens - we depend upon a sustained GA industry, which demands new blood...
I can think of many young pilots I have known who plied the skis in worn out looking spam cans and rag bags, and in my opinion, earned my respect by safely soloing extensive and multiple long journeys to build experience. Many I can think of have piloting jobs now which many would envy. But, if they sold their modest aircraft and left GA, we loose. GA recedes.
I was an airport kid, back when there were low fences and that was easy to do. Now
we in aviation suffer because attracting newcomers is more difficult higher fences and higher costs. So I come here, hoping to type my part in encouraging newcomers that they would be welcomed in our ranks. That's more difficult, if the establishment is outwardly knocking what they are aspiring to, flying now.....
I accept that posters here are not offended by me flying my 150 with pride, but someone's 150 seems to have attracted scorn....