Gushing's opposite is kvetching. (Their bird counterparts would be a bluebird vs. a blue jay.) In favor of the former, it is at least upbeat; while the latter may happen upon an actual problem amongst the many fake ones. Yet both are beaucoup non-discriminating.
The two outlooks may have an uneasy relationship. In the words of Elbert Hubbard "A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist." A library conference or post-conference is much more likely to have--publicly, anyway--gushing rather than kvetching.
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