I don't disagree with anything you said, but I mentioned the benefit because the blog explicitly denies any benefit. But the reviewers do call out a conflict of

I don't disagree with anything you said, but I mentioned the benefit because the blog explicitly denies any benefit. But the reviewers do call out a conflict of interest. They criticized it because it read like an ad, and I agree. I've seen other Apache projects (looking at Drill) that read like an ad, and it's annoying.