The cut-off date of the analysed data was 2019.
Did you read the HN guidelines?
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think you comment is simply trying to discredit the "commentator" based on things he/she has not said, trying to make him/her look bad.
They're making themselves look bad, and you're giving the benefit of the doubt to someone who holds a belief that has long been established absolutely does not warrant the assumption of good faith.