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Turkish native speaker here. -miş is indeed a tense (can be used as a base tense in the indicative past, or as a compound tense to add nonevidentiality in any other verb form).

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IMHO, it would be more correct-miş, in terms of linguistics at least, to call it an “aspect” than a “tense”.

It’s cool that you’re a native speaker, but the typical HN commenter is at a much higher level of proficiency than that.

Irony notice. This comment contains irony.

You should have used the ironic mood if you'd wanted us to understand the irony

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