Technically an overstatement but not by much. Correctly restated, its highly unlikely these actions were confusing pilots. It's as if you mistook flushing your toilet twice when instead you wanted to turn on the lights in your bathroom.
His statement was about a certain, obviously real tendency in general, existence of which is reasonable to assume there is enough research about.
He objected not to the unlikelihood of an accidental manipulation, but to the potential flaw in your comparison (which was at best a valid opinion).
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Your+opinion+is+valid+but...
I think you're misarticulating my argument.