Well your response started out good until you got to this.
Even this sentence starts off fine but at the end you indulge in exactly what you claim you disdain.
If you went on any car web-site like Ferrari, Porsche, Audi R8, Lotus etc. and as a new owner posted pictures of one of those cars with the types of "mods" you've shown, the responses would be much harsher than what you had here which were not harsh at all. They just weren't the ringing endorsement you perhaps were looking for or wanted.
A "newbie" is not a disparaging remark, age specific or a veiled threat. It's about as nice as a way that you can to tell someone to slow down the lip a bit.:wink::smile:
Welcome aboard. It's nice to have some new enthusiastic new blood.
PS.
Consider joining the NSXCA. Not
everyone there is old.:biggrin: