As ever when a comment is made by a driver there's this over reaction that they should just shut up.
If a professional F1 driver with years of experience, who has driven many different iterations of F1/racing car, is asked (maybe in private by DC) - what are these cars like to drive, and compared to other regs that particular driver finds them poor to drive as racing cars, what are they expected to say?
Those guys know what they are talking about, I haven't seen any of the drivers threatening to go on strike or asking for much sympathy about it, its just an opinion based on their professional experience.
Do we want to hear that or not? Apparently not.