No I wasn't offended whatsoever either. I was jealous because I have issues getting the intended outcome in a lot of my beers in regards to hop balance. Somehow I overcomplicate matters and seem to miss more than hit...
I'm still relatively new in this hobby. I'm coming up on my 2 year anniversary her in a couple weeks. For some reason I feel more comfortable with hops than other aspects of brewing. It's the part where you can let your imagination take over and put your thumbprint on a brew. I guess start familiarizing yourself with identifying the hops that are present in beers. I drink a lot of IPAs so there is a lot if practice. If I'm at a bar or restaurant, I try and pick a beer that I'm not familiar with and try and guess the hop combination in it. Then I'll pull my phone out and look it up to see how close I am. Thus really irritates the hell out of the old lady
if you can start doing this well, then you'll start gaining an idea of what you want in a hop combination in a beer.