Thanks for the write-up, and especially for storytelling your ability & willingness to wade in & find out! Proper hacker spirit!

You did such a great job offering an informative high level view (honing in on the control loop feels like seizing upon a critical insight), & iterating through bits nicely. You were tactful & clear in raising some ongoing qualms, which indeed seem largely correct & frustrating, even to those who started as believers. Thanks thanks, a recommendable article indeed.

Off topic - thank you for not having a super narrow text layout for your site. It seems like every other website these days has an incredibly narrow text width (I've seen as small as 600px which is so annoying to read). It was like a breath of fresh air to go to your site and have the text be a reasonable width without me having to fiddle with page styles.