To be Clear; The submitted ShowHN is a welcome effort and espouses (imo) fantastic ideals and objectives. I'm glad that people like the developer take/make the time to contribute to the greater good of the open source community.
It is also great/fantastic/good/{some other positive superlative} that people like the submitter keep on fighting the good fight when it comes to program bloat.
While I'm not trying to read another persons thoughts here - Perhaps their comment was indeed meant as a 'oh another thing that's gonna end up bloated due to feature request creep' (which was my initial jaded reaction too although I just didn't think it was an opinion worthwhile posting as a comment that contributed something worthwhile to the conversation so didn't do so).
Call it a measure of the current global mood within the HN that the comment became the top voted comment.
As to what my point was? Uhmmm I forget.