Look, I have dozens....hundreds....of pdfs, including of my house rules. I don't read any of them online. They all get printed out. Yet I am willing to read message boards. There is a very, very big difference.
Reading and playing videogames aren't the same thing at all. No more than reading and watching TV are the same thing.
Would it have helped if he had been more explicit and wrote "I can't stand reading huge chunks of text online, supposedly for pleasure, when there are alternative ways I could be spending my time, even if those ways have nothing to do with WotC products"?
I call shenanigans on your response.