Oh boy. Do I need to tell you how to communicate?

That comment is making fun of their wording. Maybe extracting too much meaning from their wordplay? Maybe.

Afterwards, evidence is presented that they did not have to do this, which makes that point not so important, and even wrong.

The commenter was not lying, and they were correct about how masterfully deceiving that sequence of sentences are. They arrived at a wrong conclusion though.

Kindly point that out. Say, "hey, the numbers tell a different story, perhaps they didn't mean/need to make a wordplay there".