Ok, I get it! I was mostly surprised, but reading dang's comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31207191 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31207191) i

Ok, I get it! I was mostly surprised, but reading dang's comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31207191 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31207191) it starts to make sense. The dots that I didn't connect was that the post was a reply to the response on HN and since the post was controversial, it (being a HN comment, in a sense) should have been "more thoughtful and substantive, not less". Perhaps the headline was the worst part of the article? Like you say - "Lies we tell ourselves to keep using [X]" could have just been "Common reasons to use [X], and why I disagree with them". Thanks for pointing it out!