alt Hacker News> Wait a second: that's not an argument at all! It's a blind assertion based only on my own experience.
The (admittedly few) PG essays I've read do seem to have a habit of hiding tall claims, as I've posted about before
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43566675
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42939439