I would most likely have downvoted your reply if I'd encountered it in any other context, but I upvoted it because you were replying to an invitation to defend the magazine's decision that purported to be curious about why someone would defend it.

I really don't like the pattern of asking "I'm curious whether anyone would seriously advocate opinion X that's controversial in this community, and why" and then downvoting people who try to seriously advocate opinion X. (I know people can't downvote direct replies, but it seems like this pattern indirectly discourages curiosity and conversation and encourages a sort of official party line.)