I can empathize with the sentiment you’re expressing—and certainly appreciate that you took the time to write out your thoughts then as now—but do recognize that yours was the 137th post in a thread started nearly two years prior, and as the contributor of some of those preceding 136 posts in that thread I wonder if you could have in turn expressed your irritation without doing the very thing you were irritated about, dismissing those contributions in preceding years with a nameless “maybe others had mentioned some of these issues before.” Personally, I’d rather be overlooked silently than be one of the “maybe others.”