Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. It's tedious, repetitive, nasty, and not what this site is for. Also, please don't do personal attacks. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

My apologies. It's just so frustrating to see a post like his that does nothing to add to the conversation. I will try to be better in the future about constructing my argument in a better form.

Appreciated! Yes, frustration is unfortunately in endless supply. We're all learning to manage it more constructively—at least that's the intention here.