Fair enough. I am certainly of that bent, and proud (ie. smug if you prefer) about it.

I don't see irony and hyperbole as equivalent though. I am serious that bicycles are an excellent invention, certainly in the context of personal mobility, most certainly contrasted with horrid technology like cars. So unironic in that sense. But certainly hyperbole, as in, "best" invention, that's hard to determine. There's millions of axes on which to judge inventions, can't really put them all on a single line, and find "good, better, best".

> no shortage of people saying more or less exactly the same thing unironically

I was joking, doubling down on the original premise of exaggeration, I thought that was obvious.