As I recall, some of those stories turned out to be "customer doing shady things, Stripe is in the right". But the others were different, like "Stripe actually screwed up and fobbed off their customer until it became a PR problem"

Personally, I don't think a complainant's apathy towards commenter curiosity counts as an admission of guilt. However, I know Stripe use to have quite the fan club until more of their ex-engineers (such as my own friends) started sharing stories of their internal chaos, like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29387264