If every reply is pointing out how confusing it is, maybe the original comment is just poorly written.

> The responses to this comment show that people's ability to read and comprehend text has decreased dramatically in the last few years

Or they show that GP wrote an ambiguous piece of text.

Or HN just has a lot more international readers now and English isn't their first language.

I was afraid of this too but it turned out to be presbyopia

Aaron695's comment are always fun to read. For some reason he's kinda 86'ed here.

An engineering forum may not be the place for creative prose, too.