People can call it crap, but they certainly wouldn't want to be greated personally by one
People often lose their sense of judgement and put up weak comparisons when they blindly follow whatever joe blog says regardless if the guy has any actual experience with whatever he is talking about or not.
In terms of paper specs X may not be as strong as Y, but in reality they probably haven't even met eachother on the same battle theatre.
People often ignore everything else that is equally as important such as; operational weather conditions, maintenance, landscape, timing, and the skills of the little fellas who are operating it.
Shallow comparisons are often meaningless, that is unless you are comparing something new to something that is half a decade old i.e. J-11 to a Spitfire.