You tried to wrench the thread away from it's subject line by introducing an irrelevance. People who were interested in the subject of the thread weren't interested in you distraction.
It may have driven people away, but it wasn't any kind of constructive move.
Jophn Larkin does like to imagine that he is fabulous designer full of wonderful ideas. It is a fable, and the only wonderful thing about it is his idea that anybody would take his delusions seriously.
But a whole lot better informed about the subject than you are. Expertise isn't quantised - there 's a gradient and you are depressingly close to the low end of the pecking order.
And John Larkin needs to eat a whole lot more spinach before he tackles intellectually demanding subjects.