This comment seems bizarrely aggressive. I read CivBase as expanding on your point—the reason people are refusing to acknowledge the results is (at least in part) because they’re in the echo-chambers being run for profit. Not sure where you got the accusations of shilling from.
Comment removed. Unfortunately, it incorrectly read as a low-brow way of suggesting my perspective was just some corporation pushing a view. On a second read, that wasn't the most judicial interpretation of the comment, and HN rules necessitate applying the strongest plausible interpretation, which is yours.