The author already lost me with the snarky

"(If you don't know what to do with a tar.gz file, you certainly won't know what to do with a "git repository". Move along; nothing to see here.)"

If you say that, but a paragraph later make remarks how Microsoft makes its software inaccessible, you might just be a little hypocritical.

This is why they call these “hills to die on”.

Ideologues have a useful role in society for identifying problems but most of them go down with their ships, while most of society just merges and adapts. Some people can’t (or won’t) tolerate the slow moving mediocrity that comes with the latter.

Really? It's literally a few paragraphs at the very end of the page? Did I miss something? And also, they went through the trouble of making it work for Windows and MacOS despite their beliefs. This to me says they're more interested in helping users than not.

It's not just a few paragraphs at the very end of the page, it has been deliberately hobbled on Windows and likely macOS too: https://old.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/f62wlr/how_i_u...

If they cared about users, they wouldn't patronize them.