Perhaps the meaning of the paragraph you quote wasn’t clear—I was trying hard to be polite rather than frank. You seem to be attacking a straw man using rhetorical questions so trivial that I would consider them disingenuous prior to adjusting for things like the illusion of transparency. Your conversation with lukeprog seems like one with more potential for useful communication. He cares about the subject far more than I do.
Perhaps the meaning of the paragraph you quote wasn’t clear—I was trying hard to be polite rather than frank. You seem to be attacking a straw man using rhetorical questions so trivial that I would consider them disingenuous prior to adjusting for things like the illusion of transparency. Your conversation with lukeprog seems like one with more potential for useful communication. He cares about the subject far more than I do.