It doesn't seem to me that GP disagrees with that. They're not telling people to chill out in the sense that they should have voiced their concerns about the fe

It doesn't seem to me that GP disagrees with that. They're not telling people to chill out in the sense that they should have voiced their concerns about the feature; it's about the outcry, about the black-and-white, evil-vs-good type of discourse that was happening in response to it.