Comment by formerly_proven

There are some circumstances where striking a word pretty clearly changes the intent (e.g. if I removed the word "relational" from your comment in the same way, it would be pretty clearly not what you're trying to say), and there are others where it's fine. If you're capable of figuring this out easily, these types of questions probably don't seem necessary to you, but when I ask questions like the one I did to gain clarify, I'm not being pedantic for it's own sake. Trying harder to understand what others are saying is a genuine attempt to improve communication on my part.

Without going out of my way to infer more intent than you're stating, it's not clear if you're actually saying that you're confident this is what the parent comment was intending or if you're just proposing it's one plausible explanation. I can think of a few other ones as well, and my point in asking was to try to understand which one they actually meant. If I were to go out on a limb and try to infer your actual intent though, it honestly seems like you're intentionally trying to come across as dismissive based on the presumption that I was intentionally trying to be difficult. Having to make this sort of judgment is exactly what I'm trying to avoid in the first place by asking clarifying questions though, so it's a bit jarring to be getting these types of terse responses from someone who wasn't the original commenter I was responding to that don't really help me understand the situation at all and only make me more confused about why someone would take the time to respond to what I said without really addressing my actual question.