Sorry for your reverse-bias mindset. In fact, Barnes' comments are accepted because, as in this case, his scholarly treatment gives the facts of what a verse says in context.
By contrast, who cares about your opinionated contrariness?
I didn’t assert anyone should care about my opinion.
I just said that Scholar-shopping is useless because it’s simple to find a scholar with whom you agree.
But appealing to “experts” reminds me of the Global Warming people. It’s what they always say - ‘my expert can beat up your expert”.