This is an unhelpful comment and tone that doesn't add much.

Many of us come to HN for the discussion and don't even care for the articles. Threads will often digress into interesting and orthogonal tangents.

A better way to respond might be, "your comment is true in some circumstances, but the article states condition X, which makes the advice applicable."

Which is why this place is just Reddit with more flowery language and an illusion of expertise

If I had more upvotes to give you, I would.

I come here because quite often the links posted are useful and interesting.

While the comment section sometimes have meaningful on-topic insights, those are few and far between. Most often are just bad takes and/or things that are unrelated to the content at hand, interwoven with a unique brand of mutual fart sniffing.

Your description does it justice.

I really don't agree. This place is filled with some of the most intelligent subject matter experts in the world.

Filled? I would say some really intelligent 1% programmers use this site to reach out to average programmers like me. Discussions around programming are often filled with people that tried a technology for 15 minutes and gave up.

Every other subject? It's a lot of cherry picked data and political dog whistling with an occasional expert

…and the same trolls pulling tidbits to laugh at off site