It's really not a very good song. It's got a pretty darned good vocal, but the rest of it plods when it it isn't just lying there.

Amen. These same people wouldn't be a bit mad at "Woman" if it was on a McCartney album, with the exact same track.

Hardly. And I say that as someone who bought Cloud 9 as a new release. On cassette. And then wore it out.