Since when recommending a certain product based on someone’s limited experience an insult? YOU mentioned yourself you have limited experience, who said there was anything wrong with it.
Would you rather have had recommendations made for advance keepers such as a homemade brew that could potentially kill your snake?
When someone tells you that something you do should not be done it’s not bashing (the fact that you see it that way is on you), don’t you want to know if /when something you do is wrong?? I know I do.
So some food for the thoughts and that will be the end on that subject be a little less sensitive and stop reading things between lines that are not there.