I enjoyed the article and it was very clear to me. Thank you for writing it. Singling out details and sidetracking the comment thread about this one detail is

I enjoyed the article and it was very clear to me. Thank you for writing it. Singling out details and sidetracking the comment thread about this one detail is just a thing that HN tends to do frequently. Usually the first few comments determine the tone/topic of the thread instead of the article itself. Which is not always bad.