I certainly didn't mean to bring you down or disparage the work of the webpack team/project in anyway. For me, the way the gist itself was written was just too funny.
I honestly don't feel you did! In fact this gist we actually had from a contributor kind enough to document his experience so we could identify exactly what hot path migration would look like for users. So we were really happy to have this gist created. And we have it tied to our docs PR/issues :)