It’s obviously hyperbole meant in jest

Exactly, especially when developers having been crunching it for the past months, I do believe all the extra delay will be the best thing for their health. After all, kids can’t have their shiny toy with minor bugs. It would be even better if devs were not told about the extra delay, and only got the news through social media like it happened.

That's a lazy way to justify any anti-consumer practice

Yeah I don't get the author's point either. Is having to always buy the latest software/peripheral an advantage? Maybe for Apple, not for the user.

One of the few breaking compatibility stories that I would consider positive would be Apple's (temporary) restriction on Flash, which was definitely good for the Internet and mobile ecosystem.

If people are still using it in 2020, FB definitely provides something useful to their lives. Your tiny internet bubble does not represent the ~8 billion people living on Earth.

Ironically, facebook is the one creating tiny internet bubbles.

Are reddit's Elon worshippers leaking to HN?

You're confusing respect with worship. And he was clearly joking.

Indeed I was :) /whoosh