I can see you are an expert and conveniently omitted the parts about "early adopters" and "novices" being helped. I can understand the temptation to be brusque and contemptuous when dealing with items that some might deem trivial matters that should,as you have said "thrown", to some dark section hidden away like some shameful secret. As some would do their disabled relative. Whenever such temptation creeps in please feel free to recall your primary school teacher esp grade 1 when you where still finding your feet.
The last paragraph of the article is clearly patronizing and meant to provide some sort of humor and encouragement to an enthusiast or novice- like myself I guess.