> and then extrapolating that to software engineering in general.

To the credit of the paper authors, they were very clear that they were not making a claim against software engineering in general. But everyone wants to reinforce their biases, so...

Great for the authors. But everyone else seems to be extrapolating. Authors have a responsibility and should recognize how their work will be used.

Metr may overall have an ok mission, but their motivation is questionable. They published something like this to get attention. Mission accomplished on that but they had to have known how this would be twisted.