I am aware, my point still stands: the refactorings available in Java IDE's are more powerful, safer and more numerous than the Smalltalk IDE ever offered.

Which shouldn't come as a surprise since Smalltalk is dynamically typed, which means automated refactorings are impossible to achieve without human supervision.

A Smalltalk image/IDE being dynamically typed doesn't mean anything, as it can have a full live-above-AST-level knowledge of everything in the program -- including the dynamic types of everything.

Think of it as ten times the power of Java's reflection.

What you can do in such a system (without human intervention) makes IntelliJ/Eclipse look like Pico.

I think you have no idea what the Smalltalk refactoring browser is actually capable of doing (and not doing).

Please read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15113804