This is just a hollow pro-credential posturing without any substance to it. What is the point here supposed to even be? That software engineers too dumb to understand statistics and probability, and should just leave this to the 'experts' like the ones the original author was citing in order to make his argument?

I don't understand the critique of tone in this either. Is the idea here supposed to be "I disagree with what the author was saying, so he shouldn't have written it well with a concise tone" ? That is what this comes off sounding like the author here is saying. Like he thinks if your idea is wrong, you aren't allowed to write well or something.