> Not necessary.

He might have a point if 100x is even close to a realistic increase... again, as demonstrated by other posts in this thread, this isn't the case.

It's not about whether he has a point, it's about calling others assholes. In face-to-face conversation there are lots of ways to do that without being strident; in writing it's too heavy-handed. Scrupulously avoiding such aggressiveness is one of the few easy things we can do to prop up the discourse.