> also clearly framed this as my opinion, you are free to have yours.

Yes, thank you for your generosity.

You very clearly framed your opinion as a dual choice ("this instead of that", "rather than", "either or"). The most natural way to read your comment is that way: one or the other.

That's the way the English language works. If you meant something else, you should have said something else.

You may have missed my first 3 words that did the level-setting. Infact, the first word should have been enough to signal subjectivity, that's just how the english language works.

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