No because pretty much everyone will know counterexamples of the later anecdote but not the former.
I'm all for facts and statistics instead of personal experiences, but I doubt HN would survive the night if we suddenly prohibited personal experiences and required a double blind test with a good sample size before posting a single comment.
>No because pretty much everyone will know counterexamples of the later anecdote but not the former.
Just because so many more people use Github. It's easy to shit on less popular things via second-hand anecdotes like you did because there is a good chance very few users will see it.
Consider something like this: "Everyone I know who had to use the flight control computer of the F-35 has absolutely, utterly despised it."
So few people will be able to refute that in this forum that many people would just take what you said at face value and assume the F-35 flight control computer is garbage.
"People tell me X" is just a terrible form of discussion because you can't speak authoritatively on what they said X if you are pressed for details. It's just noise without any depth.
>I'm all for facts and statistics instead of personal experiences
What you provided wasn't even as good as a personal experience. It was a personal experience of a conversation you had with someone else about their personal experience.
I'm all for facts and statistics instead of personal experiences, but I doubt HN would survive the night if we suddenly prohibited personal experiences and required a double blind test with a good sample size before posting a single comment.