Please don't cross into personal attack. The cost outweighs any benefit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Ugh I hate that you’re almost always right

I was about to argue but then I saw this part

> The cost outweighs any benefit.

And this is absolutely true - there is a benefit but it doesn’t mean it’s worth it

Either way my bad, I should have elaborated and been more gentle instead of just that quip

It's true though. This effect is what keeps companies like PRS in business.

There’s a whole industry of prosumer stuff in … well, many industries.

Power tools definitely have it!

I don't deny that. That's probably true about a lot of observations.

This is absolutely true and I don't understand why you're being downvoted. Especially in the context of this man just recently dying, there's someone throwing in their elitist opinion about photographers and how photography SHOULD be done, and apparently Bill was doing it wrong.

Well, I certainly didn't mean for it to come across that way. I wasn't saying this was the case with Bill. To be clear, I saw nothing bad about Bill's photos. (Also I'm not really versed enough in professional photography to have a valid opinion even if I didn't like them and so would not have publicly weighed in on them anyway.)

I was though being honest about how I felt at that time — debated whether to keep it to myself or not today (but I always foolishly error on the side of being forthcoming).

Perhaps it's a strange thing to imagine that someone would pursue in their spare time, especially after retired, what they did professionally.

He said "at the time". If I say "I thought X at the time" it implies I have reconsidered since. Your parents comment was unnecessarily condescending

It’s just the timing and how he said it, especially considering the tone of the message overall

But the irony isn’t lost on me that I myself shouldn’t have been so mean about it

You're right about the timing.