I suppose my chances of getting a straight answer aren't too good right now but I'd love to hear your thoughts on something.

HN's stated mandate is intellectual curiosity (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

Do you feel that your comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42866108 was curious (in that sense)? or was it rather that you feel something else is more important?