Sure, but it's still a worthy distinction to make. "rendering the video into ASCII" is hard, but the hard work is generally already done by the authors of these

Sure, but it's still a worthy distinction to make. "rendering the video into ASCII" is hard, but the hard work is generally already done by the authors of these libraries. The top-level comment failed to make the distinction that those libraries took a lot of genuine hard work to do their job to a high quality.