That's exactly the point I'm getting at: to the extent modesty is incompatible with publishing your work, it's not a positive trait, and nobody should lament it

That's exactly the point I'm getting at: to the extent modesty is incompatible with publishing your work, it's not a positive trait, and nobody should lament it "going the way of the dodo". (I was, earlier in the thread, attempting to find a charitable interpretation of modesty that was compatible.)