I never used Spinrite, yet I can clearly see many people online just jump on the takedown train and berate Mr. Gibson as charlatan, snakeoil salesman, with very

I never used Spinrite, yet I can clearly see many people online just jump on the takedown train and berate Mr. Gibson as charlatan, snakeoil salesman, with very poor arguments, often not giving any actual experience with the software, just their ideas why it can't be useful. Those who used it and really found it useless have much higher credibility, but those seem to be a very vocal minority, while there are many people who find the software useful.