Your post was written more like a correction than a question.
That wasn’t the goal I would have guessed from your post at all.
You started with:
I read that as you saying you thought Elliot was maybe wrong, not as you saying you weren’t sure if you were reading/understanding the article correctly.
This is also written like a correction. You aren’t asking for help or saying you are having trouble understanding something. You seem to be trying to correct Elliot and tell him that he didn’t make his point properly, he used the wrong words for what he meant.