> You can see these tropes all over social media near constantly.
You should stop using social media as your yardstick.
You should stop using social media as your yardstick.
Yes, don't believe people posting on HN.
But in all seriousness - you can even bring up Pope himself. Don't care. Show me data, show me the leaps our software made with all this 100x productivity boost. Show me a myriad of better LLVM projects, new usable kernels, and so on. Show me sharp decline in bugs and defects in existing projects.
Keep blog posts and HN comments.