Failed to get the nuance of "bringing computation to the masses"

Is there a sense of sarcasm in the expression "bringing computation to the masses"? Because Schwinger disliked Feynman diagrams. I failed to sense it. Literally, Schwinger seemed to praise Feynman's effort to bring the quantum knowledge to the public.


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Schwinger and Feynman[edit]
As a famous physicist, Schwinger was often compared to another legendary physicist of his generation, Richard Feynman. Schwinger was more formally inclined and favored symbolic manipulations in quantum field theory. He worked with local field operators, and found relations between them, and he felt that physicists should understand the algebra of local fields, no matter how paradoxical it was. By contrast, Feynman was more intuitive, believing that the physics could be extracted entirely from the Feynman diagrams, which gave a particle picture. Schwinger commented on Feynman diagrams in the following way,

“ Like the silicon chips of more recent years, the Feynman diagram was bringing computation to the masses.[4] ”

Schwinger disliked Feynman diagrams because he felt that they made the student focus on the particles and forget about local fields, which in his view inhibited understanding. He went so far as to ban them altogether from his class, although he understood them perfectly well and was observed to use them in private.

Despite sharing the Nobel Prize, Schwinger and Feynman had a different approach to quantum electrodynamics and to quantum field theory in general. Feynman used a regulator, while Schwinger was able to formally renormalize to one loop without an explicit regulator. Schwinger believed in the formalism of local fields, while Feynman had faith in the particle paths. They followed each other's work closely, and each respected the other. On Feynman's death, Schwinger described him as

“ An honest man, the outstanding intuitionist of our age, and a prime example of what may lie in store for anyone who dares to follow the beat of a different drum.[5]

More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Schwinger#Schwinger_and_Feynman