That is pure utter nonsense bullshit.
Which, oddly enough, you then agreed with in the exact same post.
With the above being said, it is useless as measure of a product's value for an individual gamer.
So is it bullshit or isn't it?
I'm familiar with the 20 million Frenchmen argument. To use language you are familiar with, "Bullshit." That's the measure of its economic value. If that's your sole measure of value, then we don't have enough in common in our world views to be able to communicate on the subject of quality or value of a object in any meaningful way. Though you might want to try reading the points 3 + 4 which I included to address economic value.
It seems pretty apparent to me based on reading the OP that the point of this poll was to offer an opportunity to "bash" the OSR. That didn't really happen...at least not in any nearly unanimous way.
I didn't interpret it that way. If you did, that helps explain your defensiveness.
The poll was posted on this site. If the results of the poll posted on this site don't mean anything, why post the poll on this site at all?
Curiosity. An attempt to validate a point of view. Desire to stir controversy. Ignorance of proper sampling and polling. To name just a few possible reasons. The reason why the OP posted it is irrelevant to the conclusions we can reasonably draw from the data. Which aren't much more than X people responded to answer 1, etc.
Irregardless of that, what it tells us is there are at least 50 or so people who think the OSR stuff is OK. Since the OSR is a "movement" started by hobbyists for hobbyists, there's no particular reason it needs more of a following than that.
Regardless of the numbers, the OSR doesn't need a following to be of interest to someone. It just needs to be of interest. To someone.
Which has nothing to do with anything we are talking about really...
It was intended to help the halfwits who confuse popularity with quality and value. I was trying to separate the concept of popularity from that of quality or value. Since you didn't get it and neither did estar, it failed to universally achieve that aim.
Also, "something better" did not arrive. Something you personally liked better arrived. There is a difference.
One that a number of people (see above) repeatedly fail to grasp. In part because "better" is a misleading word to use when applied to individual subjective preferences. I liked Runequest 2 better than AD&D or OD&D, which is why I switched. Obviously you didn't like Runequest better* (or you never did a comparison) so you stayed with a game you liked better.
* I would argue that Runequest 2 had a better presentation than OD&D - easier to read, better formatting, clearer rules explanations, better examples, and better artwork too. But those aren't about a game system being better. Similarly I'd argue that the rules to SPI boardgames were better presented than the vast majority of RPGs, for similar reasons of clarity, formatting, and pertinent examples.