> The press and fan attention was deeply harmful to Terry and likely exacerbated his mental illness.

What are you basing this on? Did you know him? This person you call a "circus freak?"

> Whenever TempleOS or Terry came up online

Which was often because Terry himself made an effort to live stream his work and his opinions on computing. Which this author seems to have missed is those strong opinions were shared by a large segment of his fanbase. What made Terry unique is that he put his effort where his rhetoric was. He was out to prove something, and, largely, he did.

> voyeuristic sensation of witnessing his mental illness through TempleOS.

Terry famously refused help. A large number of people over the years reached out in an effort to improve his situation and give him the help they thought he might need. He didn't want it.

> I wish we had just left Terry well enough alone.

I just wish Terry had gotten some help and I wish he was still with us. He died alone and that makes me incredibly sad. I cannot appreciate anything this author is trying to say. It seems to me he's the voyeur and is using this opportunity to stand on a grave to chastise the crowd. I find _that_ sick.