That's a reasonable interpretation, but then why is Zed lashing out at OP's original article? I've read through it and it's a reasonable argument that many peop

That's a reasonable interpretation, but then why is Zed lashing out at OP's original article? I've read through it and it's a reasonable argument that many people in crypto have been making for years. "you don't know anything, you haven't even independently audited OpenSSL for free before it was cool" is not a reasonable response to "there's a problem with woo crackpots trying to gain credibility within crypto", but it is a reasonable (if needlessly inflammatory, but we are talking about Zed) response to "nobody should write crypto except experts like me", which is a common misinterpretation of "don't roll your own crypto". Hence why I suspect it was just a kneejerk reaction to a misinterpretation of the article.