GN is definitely punching up. This is like your home town newspaper critiquing the NYTimes. There might be some valid points (the GPU cooler, and the editing corrections into videos for mistakes during filming for example...) but it's also entirely self serving for them
I appreciate GN trying to keep LTT honest. Even in the last WAN show they said competition creates better content for everyone. But this also feels more personal.
Steve and Linus obviously, personally, had a falling out after the backpack scenario. GN is obviously not reaching out to LTT for comment before they publish stories. And that's not good journalism either. GN will fly across the world to interview tech companies, but he can't ask someone he's known for years some hard questions? Doesn't sit right with me. Steve's not wrong, but he's not handling it right.
I hope that if this is brought up at all on the WAN show it's that they will try to do better, and that they thank GN for the feedback, and ask that in the future they would appreciate a chance to respond to the story. Then I hope Linus invites Steve to LTX next year and that they settle their differences with a game of Halo(or something). The tech community doesn't benefit from this type of drama, and I hope that we as an audience can work through it instead of picking sides.
Whether or not I actually think that will happen or not remains to be seen.