I wasn't spurned by anything you wrote, I don't get personally invested in people I don't know.
It is what you wrote that made me aware of your sadness, nothing more than you showing all of us your true colours.
People that give freely should be revered.
To be perfectly honest, when I logged back in from a decade hiatus from these boards I was upset to read about claims of these LEDs doing anything comparable to HID from my experience so long ago. It seems as though all of the LEDs have advanced enough for me to pay attention.
After spending a month, or so, crunching numbers I found the 3W and 5W emitted to be outdated due to efficiency when compared to COBs.
Even now, I made a new friend on these boards (imagine that, I'm not pissing everyone off) and he is using a 5W panel to great success, over 1g/W. Still, I know dollars to donuts a comparable COB lamp will cost less than half of what he spent while using less energy.
I won't believe any hype of blurple being superior to COB unless it can be proven;
@CobKits is right, you are wrong and spouting nothing but nonsense.