Well... For me it literally reads as if the original comment says that cheesecake is 4x better then waffles... I have difficulties to see why one would make the juxtaposition with regard to the opinion piece for another reason. But happy to be teached otherwise.

I read it as saying that people are wrapped around the axle asking others to make their lives less comfortable (which doesn't work) and that the amount of ink that gets spilled in op-eds about a problem is often unrelated to the scale of the issue. Perhaps that's me bringing my own priors, though.