well in this case it was made clear they were mistaken about the whole thing and therefore the passive-aggressive tone they were using was completely unwarranted.
what interests me with gabe's comments at the time is that he didn't have the same complaints as the "normal users". he didn't comment on the UI basically at all, which makes sense because steam's ten-foot interface released about the same time as metro. the ui was never the main problem with W8, it was the vendor lock-in that came from the microsoft store.
Cautionary Tales did an episode on Switzer. this was not the only effort to stop her from running. they blocked her from entering, they followed her along the route, and they tried to block her from finishing. her trainer and then-partner (both to the right of her) got in fist-fights to stop people from sabotaging her run.
i don't know if it still does it but it would, without fail, translate the expression "sagan om " (the story of ) to "the lord of ". no cookie for guessing why.
this was discussed elsewhere. nostr is tightly coupled to lightning.