Wow, I just got a DM from the author of that ploum article apologizing that it hurt me, and I apologized too.
I get their point, and explained that I'm most upset about the state of the webUI that has prevented such progress, I have to rewrite it all first (which I'm doing).
It means so much to me that I'm able to find resolutions to problems or disagreements in the fediverse, and I look forward to fixing these for the Pixelfed community.
Thank you
@ploum for understanding ❤️