I mostly agree with you, I just want to offer that a great critical interview is possible, and it meaningfully differs from an adversarial interview. (Sam Harri

I mostly agree with you, I just want to offer that a great critical interview is possible, and it meaningfully differs from an adversarial interview. (Sam Harris has some great critical interviews that are not adversarial, for example.) Further, adversarial interviews can be good, too. It's just that so many of them are lazy, terrible, and sanctimonious nowadays.