Not sure if they are just trolling or beeing serious but how is this concept so hard to understand?
If you never heard Linus explain all the stuff and just kept on watching his youtube videos you would have noticed no difference.
All that changed is that you can pay a little (and support them) to watch videos earlier. If you don't like to do that, fine then don't.
... I guess there are always people like this, no matter how well you explain it.
I don't think that comment is a good example of what your saying, it seems to me that they understand perfectly what's going on but think people who would use vessel aren't very smart, or at least don't value their money perhaps.
I'm an extremely thrifty person and I somewhat agree with them but I wouldn't go as far to say that people who are willing to pay to watch content early are dumb.