Thanks. All fair points and a great comment very much in line with the HN guidelines as far as I'm concerned (not that I'm a moderator!): https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Your comment got was marked "dead", so I went ahead and vouched for it + upvoted, which I think now has marked it with the proper respect it deserves. You can vouch for comments after you reach a certain karma level (there are various unlocks for various levels of karma, but nothing that changes your experience here, really)

Welcome to HN!