You said what I wanted to say better than I could. Thanks. I also want to add, to the GP, it's inappropriate and insensitive to say that the authors problem is

You said what I wanted to say better than I could. Thanks. I also want to add, to the GP, it's inappropriate and insensitive to say that the authors problem is easily fixed. And even assuming the authors main problem is narcissism, which I doubt, your methods would be laughably ineffective.