It's not a parlor trick, rather it's what it means to be object oriented. Traditional language constructs are built with object and methods as library rather than special magic keywords. Whatever the problem, Smalltalk builds the solution using objects, thus it is oriented towards objects.

It doesn't just have objects, it's built out of them, Smalltalk "is" objects; library and language are the same thing. Your custom constructs are syntactically identical to core language constructs because it's all just library.