It was an insane comparison
I think you misunderstood the comparison. I don’t think mw13 was comparing smartphones to smoke detectors as much as comparing reaction to the rebuttals.
Some posters are saying that we shouldn’t focus on technology nisyonos because we have other, more pressing issues. Others are responding that one issue doesn’t wipe out the need to deal with another.
The comparison of claiming that we shouldn’t deal with the smoke detector issue because we need to deal with more pressing issues was quite apt, in my opinion.