Dear god this article is annoying. I could spend an hour nitpicking the bs-ey wonk that André is spewing here, but that would be pointless, so I'd like to make

Dear god this article is annoying. I could spend an hour nitpicking the bs-ey wonk that André is spewing here, but that would be pointless, so I'd like to make a more macro point: Can we please get away from pedantism and trivial analysis as a display of intelligence?