Why be surprised? He had a point and a bunch of kneejerkers emoted everywhere. You appear interested in doing that, and so do the commenters, but that’s hardly

Why be surprised? He had a point and a bunch of kneejerkers emoted everywhere. You appear interested in doing that, and so do the commenters, but that’s hardly the only thing that happens on HN. Obviously. There are areas where his opinions probably come close to qualifying as facts, and he’s relevant, so he’ll continue to show up. If that’s “problematic”, I assure you that RMS is not the actual problem.