I can't count the number of times I've seen bashing of answers which contain:

gksu gedit /rootpath/rootfile.conf

Yesterday (February 17, 2018) Live Wire updated an article on how to setup gksu. The author acknowledges that gksu is frowned upon but claims no viable alternative is available for the GUI.

So should we tone down bashing people who do use gksu? Or tone down bashing of anything else for that matter when there is no viable alternative? Don't get me wrong, I like to bash politicians from time to time so I'm not totally against bashing.

FTR I did setup a wrapper script called gsu which invoked policy kits to call gedit and nautilus under Ubuntu 16.04 but can understand how not everyone will do that.