To be sure, "negative" is the weak point in the statement/sentiment. It's a value judgement subject to where the person is drawing a line between the goods and the bads (methodology always unstated), so the argument wallows in indeterminacy.
As long as people throw out a simple "the real issue" without explaining what they mean by it, it's inevitable. Pretty soon, every player is talking past one another, someone writes a blog post purporting to lay out the landscape of all sides, someone counters rap-battle style, someone else posts to HN "Ask HN: your favorite reasons to TDD," which provides the foundation for an ebook, after which three people post "Show HN: site to plan an optimal TDD strategy." After that, we wait for someone to posit a successor and the cycle starts over again.
As long as people throw out a simple "the real issue" without explaining what they mean by it, it's inevitable. Pretty soon, every player is talking past one another, someone writes a blog post purporting to lay out the landscape of all sides, someone counters rap-battle style, someone else posts to HN "Ask HN: your favorite reasons to TDD," which provides the foundation for an ebook, after which three people post "Show HN: site to plan an optimal TDD strategy." After that, we wait for someone to posit a successor and the cycle starts over again.