[PeanutCurry]

That's a very low bar for an essay... at least in terms of length. I'd be surprised if this took long to write which isn't a criticism so much an expression of confusion as to why you called it an essay. It's also a little weird to call it inexcusable they didn't acknowledge Hanlon's Razor because it's hardly a common reference. Even the wikipedia page only gives two instances of Hanlon's razor being used and one of them is an acknowledgement that the general idea is very likely much older than the Jargon File glossary entry.

[fizixer]

As I said, I admit I might be a bit harsh. I took a slightly bad example of what I had in mind and went ahead and said what I wanted to say.

The bulk of my comment is about the general trend, as well as the coding community.

[moccachino]

I feel you, I do this so often :/