Seriously, though, if you don't think the distinction between attacks on arguments and attacks on people is at all meaningful or useful, we're 100% done here. That last bit is a bonus; feel free to read it and take what you want from it, or not.
It isn't useful for setting some objective metric by which arguments can be judged because people commonly disagree on what category an argument falls into.
What makes you so good at telling when people are masking some underlying truth?