You not knowing who ThePrimeagen is, or the size of his following/influence, is a 'you' problem, not a 'me' problem. Belief perseverance together with confirma

You not knowing who ThePrimeagen is, or the size of his following/influence, is a 'you' problem, not a 'me' problem. Belief perseverance together with confirmation bias (and maybe a dash of ego protection) does indeed make for a powerful combo. Perhaps if I were to see a duck walking in the woods, instead of proclaiming that I see a duck, I should instead assert "I see something that looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, but I lack the genetic evidence this animal is indeed a duck, therefore I must assert only that I have witnessed something duck-like" I've provided plenty of evidence for you to at least admit my claim is eminently plausible, and I tend to believe that even if I were to go out and collect the hard data you so desperately desire, you would still fall back on a "Well, you shouldn't have made such an off-hand comment so confidently unless you had the hard data" This seems less interested in actual evidence of whether hundreds of sales (such a huge, hyperbolic number for a company estimated to sell orders of magnitude more devices) were driven by the Omarchy+Framework hype train, and more attempting to win an internet debate about whether we can make claims based on our lived observations.