Not OP, but pretty sure he’s saying that if you’re eg a CISO who’s naive enough to accept whatever argument is fed to you for why this is a “state sponsored att

Not OP, but pretty sure he’s saying that if you’re eg a CISO who’s naive enough to accept whatever argument is fed to you for why this is a “state sponsored attack” (implying that it’s not), then you may as well reduce your professional decision making to favoring whatever Gartner recommends in their “magic quadrant” marketing materials.