Oof. Sometimes the gap is too big and microblogging is the wrong venue for bridging it. I’ll do it here out of respect for the etiquette of not persisting in disagreements in someone else’s replies.

My take:

1. Someone’s personal experience at being bad at something does not negate the utility of it for others–or even for them if they did it well.
2. A sweeping value judgment of an entire practice based on personal experience should be tempered with observations of other people–else you’re chumming the waters with your hot take because you’re looking for disagreement, not discussion.
3. It’s ironic to denigrate or trivialize attempts between humans to connect through using a site designed to connect people.

Sure, a practice may be something you’d never do, but that’s very different than saying that widespread practice should discontinued globally when others find value in it. Your sample size of one is valid for expressing your preference but insufficient if you purport to judge for others.

I try to never be too sure I’m right, but I have reactions like these when another party appears too confident in their opinion while seemingly ignoring some easily ascertainable flaws in their reasoning.