I meant that Thomas was being both self-aggrandizing and reducing the work of others. I wasn't referring to you.
It's fine to critique a game, but throughout the thread this critique has been presented as a way to show how Thomas/Moon does design the "right" way with the fun per square inch or whatever and the comments about terrain tools leading to bad design habits. Suggesting someone could "Just imagine ALTTP in 3D and extrapolate from there" and somehow make it work as if that's easy is kind of insulting to game designers.
It's one thing to talk about this stuff with other game designers. Talk about it with your team at length. Have everyone play it and give a full deconstruct. A public forum of primarily video game fans and consumers just isn't a good place for this "critique".
Obviously you can do whatever you want. Just warning you it's not a good look.
Oh, I misread your original point then, sorry about the misunderstanding and thanks for the follow-up!