I think it's to do with the approach to the wording. It might have been more profitable to put it out there in the form of asking for our opinions, rather than stating them. As you'll have gathered, that approach tends to rub people's fur the wrong way.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'