The comment specifically said "on the landing before the fold", so yours is the shallow dismissal. I agree with the comment; lead with the things we shall judge ye by.

I made a similar comment. I think they come up because people are genuinely interested in a project and trying to offer the creator a fresh perspective. When creating a project where your the domain expert it's so easy to get stuck in your own head, and then you start explaining the project to a newcomer diving into deep details when they don't understand the starting point.

Until a project has a lot of traction (think docker, react, django not uv or jq) it's very safe to assume that every visitor to your page doesn't understand the background.