What was the point of yours? “Take benchmarks with a grain of salt” is like saying refrigerating food is important or, more appropriately, that it’s important to verify surprising claims. (You made it a personal observation for some reason, but your whole point is still about as insightful as both of those.)

The person you’re going after here probably felt compelled to counter the needless personal nature of your remarks. It’s difficult to experimentally verify relativity but we don’t criticize Einstein as a result.