[burntsushi]

I think you kind of missed my point, and crucially, missed that I was specifically questioning usage of the word "essential." You very clearly read far more from my comment than was said or implied. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14286020

Personally, I think a lot of the language you chose to use in that giant wall of text was quite unfortunate. I'm not interested in being a party to your ax grinding.