Ah, I was not saying TL;DR. I don't mind long. I don't even mind Steve Yegge long. What bugged me about this article was the deliberate misdirection, which see

Ah, I was not saying TL;DR. I don't mind long. I don't even mind Steve Yegge long. What bugged me about this article was the deliberate misdirection, which seemed to me not to have any function in the article. For me it felt like it was just to arrive at a simple point in a more complex way (and thus pad the length out). But there's a huge scope for misunderstanding in these things, so I apologize for assuming too mcuh here. Maybe you thought it would be amusing to come at it from a different angle. Maybe I read it too quickly to appreciate that.