Author here. Just wanted to say: thank you for posting this. You've given me something to think about, and I regret writing this post the way that I did.
Thanks for the reply, I'm sure you're also just a regular person writing about the stuff you like and regardless of whether you end up agreeing with me or deciding that, no, that was exactly the tone you wanted, I appreciate the thought.
Maybe the important take-away would be to recognize that this was a rant.
Ownership and honesty about things is healthy, as is letting out strong opinions sometimes.
Nothing wrong with saying "I wanted to write a (technically-informed) rant about something that's really bothering me, and I did."
F.ex. "clown-car turboslop" would be fairly polite by the standards of younger Torvalds (though he admittedly recognized later in life that wasn't a great communication style)
