We just might "criticize too much," though; without the editorializing, I could even imagine the book's reporting being interpreted as "almost without many believing it, things came together in the end." In any case, it's a lot easier to just shake my head and conclude another person has "missed the point" when things are pointed at with sour looks in and of themselves instead of calling them "distractions from the central story," something that just might be stickier for me to deal with...