Those weren't flames.
If you are going to make a comparison make sure there is some legitimacy to your claims.
NOLSe, Mr. E and Layton have been around long enough to know relatively where their route stands...there are often indirect ways of comparing...they know people that have climbed there, they know how hard or not those people climbed AND they've climbed at other places that are considered both soft (squish) or standard/hard (index, joshuatree, yosemite, etc.) by the general climbing community...
I'm not quite sure where you get off judging their statements of the difficulty of their route without having climbed their route...
I can point to the simple fact that you yourself have said you climb harder in the alpine than at Smith and yet you trash talk smith and its ratings, so you are a bit incongruous yourself...i could argue that you don't even know the rating scale...i won't, but i could...