I appreciate your comments and agreeable insight about needless complexity, but I'm tempted to read this as "I don't understand it either, so they must be idiot

I appreciate your comments and agreeable insight about needless complexity, but I'm tempted to read this as "I don't understand it either, so they must be idiots". I agree it could be better presented, but a sibling comment actually presents this in a way that makes more sense than OP, but without disparaging the whole field.