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You couldn't be expected to tell it from the grandparent, but komponisto is saying not that tonal music is bad but that the standard set of harmony concepts does not cut reality at the joints, even when dealing with Elvis or Bach. See also the link given in komponisto's other comment.
(I haven't looked into this enough to have a strong opinion on it. I will say that the standard set of harmony concepts is an extremely important part of my mental furniture.)
The title of the post is "Bad Concepts Repository", not "Bad Musical Repertory". Shouldn't that make it a given that theories of things, rather than things themselves, are what what we're critiquing here?
Hopefully you can take my comment as an application of the principle of charity to PhilGoetz rather than a critique of your comment that he was responding to.
("Harmony is a bad concept?! But all my favorite music was written using that concept!")