Regardless of whether tech or not, any opinion piece is framed within the context of the author of the piece.

I personally blame Jeff Atwood who pretty much green lit a lot of developers to consider themselves "elite" just because they were reading a blog about programming.

That attitude is something I'd love to see stamped out.

He is kind of inviting it by declaring himself "world-class". You don't get to make an assertion like that and then complain when it is challenged.