Its insane to me that Neilson/highly opinionated contrarians get any attention for this. Browse https://arxiv.org https://arxiv.org for 30 seconds and tell me

Its insane to me that Neilson/highly opinionated contrarians get any attention for this. Browse https://arxiv.org https://arxiv.org for 30 seconds and tell me PDFs are "unfit for human consumption." While its annoying to go to sites using PDFs that should clearly be a webpage, its obvious that PDF is good at solving some class of problems for certain people. The scientific community for instance has been slowly moving towards formats that can generate both HTML + PDF, but for many reasons related to its legacy of print publication PDF is king. To come in and just tell these people they're wrong is the height of obnoxious design hubris. Between that and the boastful self-accolades, delivered in 3rd person no less, its hard for me to take this seriously.