This (also not unbiased) comment doesn't provide any substantive arguments other than a character attack on DJB. You'd also be hard-pressed to find an appeal to authority in this article. Lastly, I'm pretty sure the comment I'm replying to is at least partially LLM-generated.

Ironically, it's the incredibly weak pro-standardization arguments that appear to be the most convincing evidence that the proposed standard is actually an instance of NSA meddling.