I was wondering what kind of response this article would get. It had seemed to me that opinions that tend towards pointing out the ugly truth (or approximate th

I was wondering what kind of response this article would get. It had seemed to me that opinions that tend towards pointing out the ugly truth (or approximate this) are not really appreciated here. I suspect it's because of the general level of optimism required to be productive rather than stuck in a negative stupor. My appraisal is that the comments here are mixed but generally not appreciative of the article. What is surprising is that the submission was upvoted, and the criticisms of the opinion in the article were also upvoted.