Oh, go read what he (and I) have pointed to; I haven't (IMO) mocked people directly, but I have been quite sarcastic (some would say condescending or passive-aggressive) about ideas I consider foolish, and sometimes I do get a bit overwrought. After all, when you've spent more than half your life working on things, you sometimes get a little defensive when people with not a whole lot of experience or desire to actually work on things want you to change everything you've been doing to suit them Because They Know Better.

I reckon that I know why people made fun of me when I was a brash young fan. (I think I'm a Brash Old Phart now.) And many of the reasons were right, but I had to bash my own head against those walls before I realized it.) While trying to avoid the "Kids these days have it too easy" fallacy, there is an element of that here, in that we now have a generation that doesn't remember when there wasn't an internet and you didn't have instant access to information and that these kinds of arguments moved at the speed of paper mail in sacks carried uphill both ways in the snow in my bare feet.