When that comment shows up, there are two very different motivations. One (mine) is to underscore the math to better visualize the size of the problem. Note tha

When that comment shows up, there are two very different motivations. One (mine) is to underscore the math to better visualize the size of the problem. Note that I still said it's worth doing. Another is to use it as some sort of premise to implicitly argue we shouldn't do anything, which is completely different, and which I explicitly disavowed.