Does a contrarian positioning post earn attention, or just mark you as small and shouty?

We make a VFX tool for web games, and most of our writing is the usual careful developer-tools stuff. Last month we published the opposite: a piece arguing that the Unity/Unreal era is over.

The claim is deliberately strong. The body is full of hedges, because I actually believe the hedges: the engines are not going anywhere, they still win AAA visuals, consoles, giant worlds and mature native pipelines, and the real argument is narrower than the title. What is ending, I think, is their status as the automatic starting point for every new project - mostly because LLM-assisted development rewards open text, instant execution and machine-visible state, and a giant binary editor is the worst possible shape for all three.

Two things I am genuinely unsure about, and I would rather ask people who have done this than keep guessing.

First: does a strong claim against the category leader earn attention, or does it just mark you as small and shouty? The honest version of our argument is "the default starting point is changing", which is a much duller sentence and would be read by nobody.

Second: do the hedges undercut it? I put the "where Unity and Unreal still win" section in on purpose, because a comparison with no losses is not credible. But I have also watched people quote the hedge back as the takeaway.

The piece is here if you want to see how heavy the hedging actually is: https://nixiefx.com/why-unity-unreal-era-is-over/

Has a deliberately contrarian positioning post worked for you? I am most interested in cases where it backfired, since those do not get written up.