Are you surprised by the reasons, or is it what you would have thought?
Well, I'm surprised by kikdboom's view: it's very romantic (is it the right word?). Your view of the Russian language is also rather romantic. I don't know if you have changed your mind significantly, but it the Russian language seemed unusual, dissimilar to other languages and even a little mysterious to you. It's always very nice to read you, although you are sometimes wrong (in this question). For example, you wrote that Russian had a very difficult grammar, which is used to express the idea which is expressed by diffferent words in other languages, that it had very different word order, intonation than Germanic and Romance languages, which you always put together. Sometimes I would like to get a more specified opinion: with examples, explanations in order to understand your logic.
I am surprised
So am I.