I am not "complaining that a comment is Reddit-esque", just giving an explanation to the user why your comment may have been downvoted (nor is that what the guideline you are referencing says). If you said "at this point it would make more sense to rewrite Claude Code in Rust that fix all the tech debt", or even better your first paragraph in your comment, that would be perfectly reasonable and likely upvoted significantly.

I didn't bring up the previous incident because it wasn't relevant, but since you did, this joke is a really really weird low-effort hill to quintiple down on when you were downvoted on it last time and are clearly capable of providing good insight.

That user in your link in a completely different thread added a more relevant followup to their comment, it wasn't solely the joke (it's not a comment I'd upvote, but it actively contributes to the discussion).