Literally the papers are "I built a thing, and it gets faster when you do this thing to it." There's no condition on whether the base case is realistic.
To be clear, I don't think the authors of the papers he's taking down are bad people, or maliciously trying to get publications for uninteresting work, or too stupid to implement things efficiently on a single core, or anything. I think they're genuinely interested in the work they're doing, but responding to the pressures of the environment that allows them to keep doing that work.
Literally the papers are "I built a thing, and it gets faster when you do this thing to it." There's no condition on whether the base case is realistic.
To be clear, I don't think the authors of the papers he's taking down are bad people, or maliciously trying to get publications for uninteresting work, or too stupid to implement things efficiently on a single core, or anything. I think they're genuinely interested in the work they're doing, but responding to the pressures of the environment that allows them to keep doing that work.