> There's so many times where one of the first comments are something like "I work in the industry, and the base assumptions of this article are incorrect"

There are so many times where the top comments are totally full of crap, including and especially from people who work in the industry. It's a large industry with countless subspecialties. What reason do you have to trust a comment over an article? If you're going to be skeptical, be skeptical of both, but be especially skeptical of some cursory dismissal of a work that obviously took significant time, effort, and expertise.

I'd love for these commenters to write their own articles and see what's it like to be commented on.