> So, do you care to provide a rebuttal to the article
No, I already explained why rebutting the whole article is impractical. I might have been ok doing so for a single argument just as a demonstration, but your unwillingness to point out the most compelling and impactful argument of this article makes it pretty clear there was no point to it. It was 10k words of padding.
> or his main point about profitability
A message ago the main point was about revenue growth. Now it has shifted to profitability. So, no, I'm not going to waste time rebutting an ill-defined, second-hand, moving target argument either.
> I don’t imagine calling his theory “obviously nonsense” was as far as your reasoning went. Care to expand on it?
It's nonsense by definition? The claim is that companies have too low a revenue to pay for their compute spending commitments, and growing super fast can't fix that problem. Super fast revenue growth is exactly what solves the problem of revenue being too low! It's a very strange thing to assert, but it's what he did assert, and it's the only bit of this article that's even close to what you claim is his main point.
("Oh, but super fast growth can't happen because of blah blah blah as explained in some other article", you'll say. Maybe so. But blah blah blah is not what Zitron wrote in this article, in this one he wrote that revenue growth won't solve the problem of low revenue. Rebutting a 10k word ramble is merely impractical. Rebutting an amorphous blob of 1M contradictory words is impossible, there's always going to be some explanation about how what he really meant is somewhere else.)