Your position is that I should not argue against Dan Abramov because you perceive him to be relatively accomplished. This is an embarrassing point of view.
Burn your idols.
Where are you getting anti-intellectualism, rejection of category theory, or a defense of pragmatism at the expense of either of those things? Who is this directed at?
Reading back up this thread, you're the only person referring to those, unless I'm missing an edit somewhere.
But, no. Here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18783434