I didn't downvote the comment in question, but to me it seemed blatantly curmudgeonly. I checked out fermienrico's posting history, and one thing that jumped o

I didn't downvote the comment in question, but to me it seemed blatantly curmudgeonly. I checked out fermienrico's posting history, and one thing that jumped out was a submission of a "design thinking" video with the video's title replaced with "Design thinking is bullshit." So I think that bears out the impression that fermienrico just doesn't like (graphic) design, or at least aspects of it, and, rather than seeing it as offering a constructive critique of the article, I would be inclined to conclude that his/her comment was indulging an entirely negative personal dislike of anything prettified or involving skills other than hard sciences. Of course cartography is more than geometry, it has always been about graphic communication. Map projections are just the part of cartography that is conducive to mathematical analysis. Any mapmaker is an information designer, if not, occasionally, an artist. It is not a wise move to attempt to restrict human activities to things that are objectively calculable, or to attempt to redefine the word cartography to narrow it's meaning in such a way that all skill and aesthetic judgement is (somehow) eliminated. That is not the reality of mapmaking.