You're "conveniently" overlooking that most of these people were replying to someone who asked an either/or question where the two choices were "big problem" or "overblown" (actually, the question was asked by the first person you quoted out of context). That is why the word "overblown" is getting used repeatedly. But I understand that there's more for you to get outraged about if you ignore that detail. And there is no "Apple Defense Militia" (or if there is, they've never approached me about joining). But that tinfoil hat does look quite fetch on you.
Apple took one of the few reasonable technical approaches to the problem (one which they partially created by favoring thinner phones over larger batteries - the other part of the blame goes to the current state of the art in battery chemistry: if you have a solution for that, a lot of big companies would love to talk to you). Apple screwed up big time by not talking about this more when they implemented the changes. They are now rolling out the support (visible battery monitoring features in the OS) that they should have done back when this first became a thing.
