Comment by andrewflnr

Lots of people have commented on the level of anger directed at V. Personally I do think the lies justify it, and it's definitely part of the picture, but in practice mere marketing BS (unfortunately) doesn't usually raise this level of anger. I don't think that's the full reason.

I think part of the reason is that a lot of us want to believe something like V is possible, powerful safety features in a small conceptual and complexity footprint. So the first time we heard about V, we got excited, thinking maybe it could really be the cool thing it claims to be...

No one likes false hope. It really stings, actually. Then you find out they're not correcting their mistakes, which means they're doing it on purpose, which means they did it to you on purpose... that's the kind of thing that gets people pissed.