I was just about to create my own thread on this, so thanks to @CairoCarol.
If it was a train wreck, I think it was the moderators who made it one.
One poster was getting out of line, which perhaps warranted a mod note or warning, otherwise the only problem with the thread was three different moderators moving it around twice, fussing over it, and closing it.
It belongs in GD, and you could say of practically any thread in GD that “Neither side is going to sway the other. For the record, I don’t know and neither do any of you.”
I strongly feel it shouldn’t have been closed.