But that also is not productive behavior and I should stop myself from getting drawn into things, it's just exasperating to see a so called authority responding to incredibly mild criticism with pretty vicious & undeserved insults and recoiling like he's been struck at the slightest pushback.

I haven't seen the specific incidents you mention but I concede that Will is argumentative and far too willing to get drawn into petty disputes

It is tangentially useful to be able to easily fire off a post on my 15 minute work break & provoke a credentialed big name guy, who identifies with the campist factionists I find most annoying, into making himself an object of absolute site wide ridicule that clownshoes his allies by association.