No need! It was a fine digression in and of itself, and I share your desire to help with the subtleties of English.
The trouble comes with the upvotes that make the digression into a top subthread. Bikeshedding is a collective creation that no one particularly intends.
It feels to me like there's a simple and elegant solution to this problem waiting to be discovered.
Originally it was a reaction to the in-built desire I (and I suspect most of us) have to immediately jump in and make a correction to someone else's English. It was an experiment in trying to say something useful and positive instead. It was an interesting result. I'm not sure I'd repeat it.
