Seems to me, from the bit you quoted, that their answer would be something along the lines of: "I would restate the point of the post as talking about how SQL i

Seems to me, from the bit you quoted, that their answer would be something along the lines of: "I would restate the point of the post as talking about how SQL is bad at hierarchical data, while using bad SQL to defend this argument." What they actually wrote is so close to this that your claim not to be able to see that feels a tad disingenious.