The recent (and not so recent?) activity seems to be largely the exchange of "one-liners". In my judgement, we are piling up a bunch of micro-thoughts, when we should be having fewer but better thought out messages.
Going to give this one a short term closure to let things cool down. I will be around my computer for a couple of hours. If the topic is left closed after that, I request that another admin consider reopening it.
Adminnemooseus