> but these weren't exactly topics of discussion on this thread before you brought them up

Well, we're sorry we didn't recognise you as the discussion warden, but I think that's how a conversation works: people are free to bring up the points that they feel relevant, and people can either continue the train of thought or not. If it has no appeal to you, you're free to let it die a natural death rather than make pronouncements on what's relevant or not.