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by sergioro 2345 days ago
Stopped reading after "Medium's engineers are much better at all of this than you will ever be"; can't take this writer seriously.
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I read this as: a group of professional engineers dedicated to hosting/scaling a platform designed for hosting blogs will perform better than a single random person managing a personal blog in their spare time. I generally think that's accurate.
I dislike this formula of "Stopped reading after ..." that I seem to be seeing more frequently.

Why not just make your criticism of the quoted text straight up? Why the rhetorical flounce out of the room?

I agree with your observation on how to improve my comment but the comment was past the edit grace period so i could not update it.
Might just be their way of being funny, I wouldn't read too much into it. Self-deprecation is a common social cue to trigger some light, mundane empathy:

"I struggle, you struggle, (thus) we relate!"

I blame it on the spirit that being last in school is way cooler than being first, and I suspect it's as old as humanity.