Nah, I really don't. I enjoy having discussions where I educate people.
It wasn't underhanded, not in the least bit. Defending the status quo monopoly that exploits its workers is really strange. Destroying entrenched rent-seeking monopolies is doing the world a great service. Uber has been a public company since 2019. The fact that it's a viable business is beyond question at this point.
Have you given any thought as to whether you might take the time and reevaluate your basic assumptions about this? Being a person who is always perceived as smarter than most everyone else can lead to some ways of viewing oneself and the world in a very skewed fashion. I personally found doing psilocybin to be helpful in breaking down the ego enough to gain some good perspective on myself.
I would ask you to point out in my response where I am protecting anything. I am decrying the destruction of things by underhanded means (subsidizing to make costs artificially low and payments to workers high) which is irresponsible and completely indicative of a business model that has no concern for externalities or contingencies for failure. 'Oh the business didn't work' is a terrible line when in the process of failing you destroyed an entire working system, even if that system did suck in a lot of ways.
It is great that you are proud of your work, but I hope that in your current and future endeavors you may be able to use your talents for something a bit better.