This criticism is addressed at code, not people. > If it was your code they were talking about, you may feel differently. I'm not the commenter you replied to

This criticism is addressed at code, not people. > If it was your code they were talking about, you may feel differently. I'm not the commenter you replied to, but no, I'm not my code, so I'm not going to get offended by someone criticising it. If someone does, it's on them. There were a number of times in my career when someone called something I wrote overcomplicated, and I've never been even close to feeling any emotion about that fact at all. That remark always prompted me to hear carefully what they have to say about improving it. That's not a brag, just a certain level of emotional maturity. People shouldn't be held responsible for every emotional reaction people have to their actions/words, because part of the responsibility for that rests on the person experiencing those emotions. In that case I don't think Casey said anything offensive, so if that made someone angry, they have themselves to blame for that.