Checking if the new features matter to you, and your workflow is not "ego massage".
It's simply being honest about your needs and pragmatic.
The "ego massage" which the parent complaints about is a different thing, namely the: "I'm so pro, but Apple made it easier for amateurs, not 1337 like me, this sucks" kind of drivel.
Notice there was nothing about how it hampers HIS workflow, only high level, zero-content, judgements about it being easier for amateurs, the Drummer feature being toy like, the Garageband-pro meme, etc.
Not to mention that from the whole comment, one can easily deduce he hasn't even tried the software in person.
The contradiction is in promoting personal "meaning" (I'm guessing he actually means preference, though) in the composition of software features in an application, yet not allowing for the same to be a feature in the composition and practice of free jazz, a style he baldy denigrates as "meaningless." The only way this contradiction can be resolved positively for free jazz is if the style included pandering to his taste.
Well no, not really. My comment wasn't about free jazz, nor was it about meaning. I simply used a stereotype about free jazz as a tool with which to beat up the original comment.
Your interpretation is yours, and your choice to make a linkage between two usages of the word 'meaning' that weren't intended is also valid. I can't very well attack the original comment based on my reading of it and then ask you not to do the same to mine. That being said, my comment was structured like this:
1. Attention grabber: you're full of hot air.
2. This is why.
3. Here's a more mature way to think about pros, amateurs, and software.
I don't believe that the passing reference to a style of music has any real effect on the thrust of my argument.
I am slightly regretting picking on free jazz: its fans are, predictably, articulate. Perhaps I should have used Markov chain poetry instead of free jazz, then only the algorithms would be upset.
Checking if the new features matter to you, and your workflow is not "ego massage".
It's simply being honest about your needs and pragmatic.
The "ego massage" which the parent complaints about is a different thing, namely the: "I'm so pro, but Apple made it easier for amateurs, not 1337 like me, this sucks" kind of drivel.
Notice there was nothing about how it hampers HIS workflow, only high level, zero-content, judgements about it being easier for amateurs, the Drummer feature being toy like, the Garageband-pro meme, etc.
Not to mention that from the whole comment, one can easily deduce he hasn't even tried the software in person.