Ed's note: (well, not Ed's note!) -> this remark was lifted from a tangent on a thread that I cleaned up to make the main topic easier to follow.
Forgive my heresy, but if you have any desire to make JavaScript devs feel at home with Ren-C, I think adopting the dot path notation is relatively harmless syntax sugar. I've thought about trying to make dot-paths in dialects to make the syntax closer to other languages I'm trying to mimic, but it's a hassle.