The tweet by Aaron that is insulting is actually this one.
It absolutely makes a mockery of Modern as a format of 'diversity' downplay's the completely warped state the 'winners meta' is in, and ignores the fact Modern is not 1 single PT level event, but a format that is popular not because you can spike it and then 'answer' that spike deck, but because of the illusion of being able to play your pet deck and still compete.
There is also this gem for your 'pithy post of the day' quota.
In the end here we have to ask ourselves a few questions.
What is the objective of Modern? To me its at least 3 fold.
1. Be a fun experience for the most people possible.
2. Allow rotated cards printed since 8th (+ MH) to see play.
3. Support a diverse number of competitive decks which are generally balanced against eachother.
So lets look at a few of these.
1. "Be fun..."
Fun, is different for everyone. There are people who with a straight face will tell us that Eldrazi Winter was a fine period for Modern. There are people who believe Tron is fun. Who believe Storm is fun. Who believe Neoform is fun. Who believe Soul Sisters, is fun.
As long as the format is not warped, this objective is not really hard to meet, because of the large card pool.
2. "Allow rotated cards..."
Check. For the most part. What this one also should include is that the rules managing the format, must be clearly enforced, and with an objective perspective towards those cards. In no way, shape, or form, should
Stoneforge Mystic be banned. There is no logical reason or argument that would stand under scrutiny from an objective balance perspective which I have seen.
3. "Diverse...competitive..."
Here we begin to get to the muddy waters, even from an objective perspective and not the subjective one which is 'what is fun.'
Modern is, today, and easily for the last 6-8 Months, a Graveyard Format. People pushed against me saying that before, but it is. If you do not run multiple GY cards, or a Turn 2/3 Combo deck, you will not make it through a large event without being punished unless you run comically lucky and avoid.
Hogaak
Dredge
Phoenix
Hollow One
I'm trying to find the tweet, but something like 80% of the Day 2 yesterday was GY leaning.
Is that an offender of diversity? When 20% of the field is made up of a deck that goes then 56%-60% against the field WITH MAIN DECK Leylines to try and cut off the primary path to victory, is that a 'competitive' offender?
We have top decks then being Hogaak, Hogaak Dredge, Urza, and Hardened Scales. I have a suspicion that Scales and Urza would have capitalized on the fact Hogaak warped the format, but...well when a 'warped' format still provides you with 56.2% win rate (Hogaak) or 60% (Hogaak Dredge!) well just how strong is that deck really?
It comes back to the same thing I said when they where going to ban KCI, but now its even worse.
You ban Hogaak itself to kill yet another Modern deck. What happens?
You split your hate now between Phoenix/Dredge, and Urza/Scales, but now you also have E Tron/G Tron, and Humans/Jund and the UW Purists.
Maybe thats ok? Maybe it works out for the best? Regardless, the format is clearly dealing with another issue, and we almost never seem to NOT be dealing with an issue.
Long story short, if you think removal of Hogaak is going to spare us from being at risk from the yard, you are completely wrong. If you cut your RIP/Surgical/Ravenous Trap package you will get obliterated by Phoenix/Dredge again.