>For example, my favourite online newspapers on my cellphone are those which don't default to some half-arsed mobile layout.
Again, that's an argument against bad responsive design, not responsive design in general.
Again, that's an argument against bad responsive design, not responsive design in general.
And no, it isn't in any way similar to "no true Scotsman". There is a pretty simple and clear definition of what responsive design is, and that goalpost does not move from example to example. There are cases of responsive design that interfere with the user. There are other cases where you would only notice that it's responsive if you actually compared the site on mobile vs. on the desktop. The latter is good design, while the former is bad design.
Yeah, some responsive web designs suck. Some are good. Raging against all responsive web design is as silly as raging against all grouped and stereotyped things.