> How dare OP adapt their family recipes so they can be usable. What an affront to nature.

It's an affront to tradition. And that's important to a lot of people. It happens not to be important to a lot of very inward-looking geeks here on HN, so I felt it was important to call out that disconnect upthread.

You can't show up to your elders with a pull request and performance data and expect them to accept it. That's a misunderstanding at a very fundamental level about What Family Cooking is For, socially.

You can think they did more damage than good, but if you think they weren't explicitly working to uphold tradition then you didn't read the comment right.