I'm not quite sure how my contribution was 'talking shit about you'. I don't think I wrote anything offensive, but please let me know if something I said really did cross a line. Simply trying to explain that:
1. Yes your lifting numbers are relevant because far too many don't properly finish the NLP because they are tempted to bring in other complexity too soon. Therefore whenever someone asks the hypothetical Ripps answer will be finish your NLP fully first.
2. Ripp's position is well known. His answer for almost everything is going to be along the lines "finish the NLP, get your lifts up, if you don't like my program do something else". As a direct quote (bold added) "My opinion about barbell rows is as follows: fuck barbell rows. Really. Fuck them. Stop wasting time worrying about barbell rows and get your deadlift up to 500. By then you'll have your own opinion and you won't have to worry about mine."
3. Ripp is not an expert on everything, so I choose to use his forum to ask about strength training and injury rehab. If I wanted advice on hypertrophy I would choose to ask someone else because I believe other people may know more about this than him.
4. Ripp is a human and can make mistakes, change his mind and exaggerate to make a point.
I freely admit I add in curls, lateral raises, overhead dumbell extensions and barbell/dumbell rows when I feel like it, and I don't powerclean because I prefer romanian deadlifts. By my best estimates, the curls and extensions have added 1/4 to 1/2 inch on my arms over what the NLP produced on its own. I have run our NLP a few times with and without extras and have used this as my basis for the estimate, yes it is completely non-scientific and anecdotal. I choose not to make the lifestyle adjustments to commit to intermediate programming consistently. I have even added in a limited amount of jogging and intervals when I want to be able to keep up at basketball with the kids (though I kill them on screens and in the post) and suffer my lifts going down for a period then re-run NLP from a lower starting point.