The fact that one option was a subtle insult to anyone who picked the other option, which was an overt insult to anyone that picked it, will skew results there.
Yeah, it was an insult, but honestly it's an insult about that I can get behind.
It might be harsh, but this discussion can be reduced to "Are you ok with a new option being introduced in the game even if you don't like it?" or "Are you against the idea of strangers that you will never meet will play the game in a way different than yours?"
And honestly, one of these two opinions is not respectable.
If you feel that way, fair enough. You may even be right. But don't dress up an insult as any kind of meaningful way to gather information. It's an insult, there wasn't anything constructive to take away from it.
That's fair, and right, I think I wouldn't have done it that way, but when you don't respect an opinion you are not really interested into being constructive about it.
In the past days "we" talked a lot about floating and racial ASI (I don't want to open the argument again), and I tried to explain my point of view, how 5e as a whole is designed, I've shown statblocks and everything, but I've done all of this because I kinda understand the different opinion, mostly because these people found this change not as an option but shoved on their faces. If I can't feel emphaty towards an opinion my ability to discuss it becomes limited.
