Javascript. It won't go away. Like many coders who are experience in compiled, strongly typed languages, my accommodation to JavaScript has been slow.
One thing that I have learned from JavaScript is about other languages - how the complexity of type systems feeds on itself. I mean this:
Orchard 1.1 looks pretty slick, but also pretty complex.
However the upgrade did not go smoothly at all - before upgrading the site I attempted to install the latest version of the BlogML module, with which to take a backup. The only effect was to totally break the site - yellow screen on any URL. So, a bit of recent data has been lost. This is painful, but I will see what I can recover.