It shows you what an impact ANet was able to make with GW1. That game really showed the kind of promise you get from small start-up developers who are passionate about their game. And that passion ends up being reflected by the people who have been with those developers since the beginning.
But yeah, like you said it's about the person not the points being made, and you get statements like this that are so hilariously contrary to the truth:
You can recognize the GW1 vets by their unmatched anger at where the real ANet has gone. Anyone blindly bashing the game is long gone by now. There's someone on the official forums with the sig: "Now you're just a Guild Wars that I used to know." Which makes me simultaneously lol and