Yes I find Texas's obsession quite intriguing. It is also fascinating that he does not see any similarity between his fixation about a paint scheme and NS VIA's liking of VIA. But it takes many sorts of individual sillinesses, which each of us have and on occasions are proud of, to make it an interesting world.
I would suppose the difference is that I've done my best to explain what precisely I didn't like about it. Silly or not the explanation is there. Some of the things I liked were the improved food quality, the generally professional but sometimes quirky staff, and the incredibly interesting sleeper cars. I was genuinely curious why NA VIA was so enamored with VIA. It's just another company to me that doesn't elicit any specific love or hate. It has a rather unique train with The Canadian but
most of what VIA does as a company is standard passenger railway stuff that is neither at the top or bottom of the scale. Kind of a middle-of-the-road operation from the looks of things.