Ah, but you forget the attention economy that the internet amplified: only controversial takes are discussed, nobody wants to read your reasonable and nuanced blog post because everybody can silently agree with it already. Without any crucial insight or big controversy nobody will read it. And the latter likes to masquerade as the former most of the time.

It makes me sad how right you are. Particularly: > And the latter likes to masquerade as the former most of the time.

Hear hear !