I've given up on exclamation points and moved on to apostrophe abuse

How a beautiful ride in the country was ruined by a major grammatical gaffe

I have made no secret over the years that I do not like exclamation points, noting that if your words don't exclaim something all by themselves, no amount of punctuation can save you.

We have apparently now moved on to apostrophes.

Apostrophes are a completely different animal than exclamation points.

With exclamation points, people are apparently trying to add drama to their words.

As in "He hit a 420-foot home run!"

Did the exclamation point make the home run go farther than 420 feet?

If that sentence had two exclamation points at the end, would it mean the home run was actually 840 feet?

Or what if the home run in question had been only 180 feet and the statement became "He hit a 180-foot home run!"

Would the exclamation point be there because the author thought that was a long home run or a very short home run? In that case, the exclamation point would also need an explanation.

And even with the 420-foot home run, we don't know if the exclamation point was there because of the length of the home run or that the home run by itself, of any length, excited the author.