Rest easy, nothing “stupid” about it. A moderator moved this message from another topic, here:
Which is very long and contentious already. Much of what I wrote here is more-than-less directly addressing points at various places in that thread, but what I wrote was already so long I didn’t want to bog it down with quote after quote.
So I ended up quoting nothing - which, alas, left parts pretty baffling when removed from its original context.
BTW, I had (& have) no objection to the post being moved. And I thank you for nudging me to link back to the post’s original home.