The HN readership is as entitled to an opinion about writing style as anyone else. If anything thinking yourself such an intellectual one-punch-man, such an ou

The HN readership is as entitled to an opinion about writing style as anyone else. If anything thinking yourself such an intellectual one-punch-man, such an outlier, so many echelons above the common man that a single voicing of your opinions would meaningfully skew the statistics, now that's what I'd consider elitist. We ought to complain about what we subjectively find lacking, not what we expect some model of the average person will find lacking. If everyone did that, I don't think it would be possible to make something that is to anyone's liking, as while it's relatively easy to know what you like and want, it is incredibly hard to know what the average person desires.