Who are you to decide for whom it does and does not matter? Like others have said, this isn’t a court of law. You have made your standard here clear, cool. Other people have other standards they apply to various situations, and they are using those to discuss this specific topic.
Ok, but the other presented standards are obviously ridiculous.
"This guy is famous and a master of the game, so I'm going to trust him when he's seriously trashing some young guy."
I am someone who can think.
Unlike pretty much everything in Chess, this is an international news story. That’s quite significant.