One distinction between criticism and mere insult is that a criticism always has a chance of helping the person criticized, by explaining a specific problem and thereby suggesting an avenue of improvement.
I downvoted your reply, which was not a criticism.
I translated his joke as “Optimizing for minimal bounce rate is an oversimplified goal, which could interfere with more important goals unless they are given more consideration.” That seemed helpful and thoughtful enough to me.
That’s an unhelpful, unthoughtful answer. You can do better.
“Optimizing Reality”
One distinction between criticism and mere insult is that a criticism always has a chance of helping the person criticized, by explaining a specific problem and thereby suggesting an avenue of improvement.
I downvoted your reply, which was not a criticism.
I translated his joke as “Optimizing for minimal bounce rate is an oversimplified goal, which could interfere with more important goals unless they are given more consideration.” That seemed helpful and thoughtful enough to me.
It also seems to have been made repeatedly in the comments already.