"I don't want to be that guy," says that guy, and promptly proceeds within the very same breath to be that guy just as hard as he can possibly find a way to be.

Have you considered not being that guy?

That's a LaTeX habit for a lot of people, chill out.

Using backticks seems like an anti-pattern to me, where you want to be correct, but are only going half-way. If you want to be correct, you can use the Unicode characters that specifically denote beginning and ending quotations, in both single and double tick versions. If you don't care about being correct, just using the default ASCII single or double quote suffices. I wasn't sure why someone would purposefully use backticks in that way in what appears to be an attempt to accurately express themselves, and not appreciate the knowledge that there is a more correct way to do so.

That it's a LaTeX habit does provide an explanation, but then the information that there may be a better way when using Unicode might also be appreciated for someone that does not know. I would appreciate being informed of that if I wasn't aware.

In any case, I tried to be informative and relay that it was my own problem that compelled me to reply, but I wasn't aware I was being excitable enough to need to "chill out". I tried to word it in a way to avoid people thinking I was getting worked up, and show that I just felt compelled to contribute. Unfortunately that didn't seem to come across.

They do kern oddly, but smart quotes are too hard to type.