It’s probably very important to the author, though, in the sense that it shaped their life and clearly became briefly very famous. So I don’t think it’s particularly fair to snipe at them for writing a reflective blog post about that. It’s not like you have to read it.

Why is it unfair to snipe at a bloke that’s made a career at snipping at others?

The towns he calls crap are important to the people that live there. If they can take it so can he.