That's me. (As in, creator of ANN and also someone who should have walked away sooner - although I did switch to Windows quite a few years before closing ANN).
In hindsight, by the time all those discussions happened on ANN, the platform (as a meaningful alternative to Apple or Windows) was dead anyway. A lot of energy was wasted on the comments section of ANN in those days that could have been spent on more productive endeavors.