It's not just that your comment had no value, it had negative value. If it only had no value, I would have done as you said, downvoted and moved on. But since

It's not just that your comment had no value, it had negative value. If it only had no value, I would have done as you said, downvoted and moved on. But since it's existence was a detraction, I felt it was important enough to attempt to mitigate the propagation of potential misinformation. I do apologize that adding the bit of "... hubris that your opinion matters" came across rather harshly and was unneeded to my point.