Post author just wanted quick clicks based on kneejerk heuristics based attacks on Bend. Now he’s doing gymnastics all over this thread to mitigate what he said. Sad and disappointing.

Yes, I used Bend as an example because it is recent and high profile, and I also wanted to present my issues with it. I did not mean to conflate it with the main idea I was trying to present to the degree that I obviously did after reading my own writing as a third party would (at least to the degree that it is possible to do so).