Even in Kyoto

Stuff I write first thing in the morning and late at night tends to miss the mark. Meant that people will often go out of their way to avoid commenting on which approach, program, etc is best to avoid Q&A turning in to a flame war when they wind up untintentionally dissing on other ways of doing things or other project's apps. So there isn't much discussion about what's "best" in any kind of discussion forum, but bloggers will sometimes try to tackle that, as you've seen. Since Linux is all community made and there are competing factions each trying to replace each piece with a different version of that piece they made, things get political. So, that kind of a tar pit. Not just the complexity of it or current info.

Some of the worst pieces of things that got in to Linux (systemd comes to mind) got in there because the people responsible for it screamed over any perceived slight, no matter how valid it is.