FWIW I didn't sense any disrespect, although I can see what you read it that way.
I'm guessing you saw "your choice ... was the problem", whereas I see "... NFS was the problem".
Deleting those first three words would eliminate the unnecessary ad hominem.
It wasn’t meant as an ad hominem, but as a complete sentence. Sometimes I think HN commenters are overly sensitive and think others are “out to get them” - and other times I’m 200% sure of it. :)
But it’s not the preferred protocol for the reasons explained - that’s the lesson you can learn here.
Someone using Linux preferred to connect to their Synology using NFS and went through some troubleshooting to make it work. Aren’t you interested what NFS might have in store when cross-platform is not an issue?
Are you sure? To me it came off as factual. They very simply stated that NFS was the issue.