@Backgammoner: Sorry if I offended you (or anyone else). That was certainly not my intent.
I am a Land Use Consultant and I work regularly with many design, technical, and legal professionals. Many of us use that particular term in our casual conversations as a sort of slang description for the behavior I was describing. Its a pretty widely used term, and if you search for it, you will find many definitions for it that are all consistent.
Here's one definition:
"Intellectual activity that serves no practical purpose."
I used that term because I think it precisely describes your posts in which you have gone to extensive lengths to make esoteric arguments about why something that is clearly a bug is somehow not a bug. And you have done this despite the fact that it doesn't make any difference to the thousands of people who are adversely affected by it. Also, I still disagree with even your highly technical arguments about this.
I think part of what you are seeing is that there are huge numbers of people for whom Apple's completely thoughtless design and careless implementation in iOS 8 Calendar has been extremely disruptive and irritating. I am one of those people. When a guy shows up and then tells all of us that really, we are all mistaken and that this issue is really "technically correct" and that there isn't anything wrong with what the Calendar is doing..we just don't understand it, the natural response is that people get ***** off.
I deal with people, and have to try to predict their reactions to arguments I make, for a living and therefore I am totally unsurprised that this has been people's reaction to your posts. Sometimes people say stuff when they are ***** off that might sound insulting. That's unfortunate, but it is predictable. I'm not claiming that this makes it OK, just giving you an explanation for it. I am sure it feels like a personal attack but in most cases it really isn't, it's more general frustration towards Apple, but its coming out in response to your posts.
Apple's handling of this has been totally sub-par. It demonstrates a complete lack of leadership and accountability. It demonstrates that Apple has total disregard for its customers: it is far more important to Apple to try and maintain an appearance of being infallible than it is to simply acknowledge an obvious mistake they made and provide a timeline for a solution. No one would knock Apple for acknowledging and fixing a mistake. In fact I tend to have MORE confidence in companies that admit errors and then move to address them quickly, not less. I feel like we are dealing with a stubborn teenager who knows he has done something totally stupid but instead of just saying "I screwed up, I'll make it right" keeps ignoring the issue or trying to argue that he didn't screw up at all. This is a joke, and it's insulting to me and a lot of other Apple customers.
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