Not at all! No scaring here, but if someone says they think something is good, then surely I can contradict them if I think differently.

Everyone has their own tastes in what they see in a photo ....

Brightness and graininess are effects that you choose because that's how YOU want the image to look. You may like it, you may love it, but not everyone has to and you have to respect the views of others. The composition of that image is very good, I just don't like the effects that's all.

There's no excuse for bad cropping though :-)