The statement they made is ridiculous, and I stand by my decision to label it as such.
If you want to explain to me how I'm wrong instead of simply appealing to authority, you're obviously free to do so.
That sounds entirely ridiculous and unsupportable to me.
And please don't trot out the "appealing to authority" bit. That absolutely doesn't apply here; when it comes to an opinion about some hardware/software project, I would 100% take the word of the lead developer on that project over a rando on HN who has for some inexplicable reason decided to pick a fight about something they appear to not have any domain knowledge about.