I think the https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50043026 Terence Tao post was much more hopeful and along the lines you're suggesting.

It was, but the comments on that post were insanely depressing to read. I'm a mathematician, and find myself largely hopeful and excited for its future, but being online this last week has been incredibly brutal due to the surrounding vitriol. It's an avalanche of negativity, and I'm largely not talking about that of my peers (though indeed, some of my peers). Most mathematicians I've spoken have been reasonable / positive, perhaps an effect of my field.

I really need to just stay off social media for like a month and keep talking IRL. Longer, if I know what's good for me.