Yeah I was wrong, I actually updated my comment right before you posted your response so I understand why you didn't see it.

I was definitely wrong; I misunderstood something about ETFs. ETFs probably are more tax efficient after all, or maybe some kind of direct indexing thing if I want to avoid Tesla and/or SpaceX.

I'll acknowledge that there's some validity in "doing things for my amusement". I do think that if I avoid selling things and instead only buy to rebalance, that could avoid a lot of tax bullshit, but that's definitely not what I was suggesting before so I'll acknowledge that I was absolutely in the wrong.

ETA:

I actually think I agree with you for the most part. I don't think it's the worst financial advice on HN but it's definitely not good financial advice either.

It's too late to edit the root comment directly but I did email HN support to ask if they could amend it for me.