I would take it well. I was only going to find out for myself later on, they're just helping my analysis!
Also, on the topic of when players play their best- a lot of people have opening knowledge far surpassing their endgame and middlegame skill. Unfortunately, this always comes back to haunt them!
The game is fine to be ranked linearly, for it is the measure of all the elements of your play combined into one rating. Just be sure not to compare it to a rating anywhere else but chess.com!
Many, many times I have gotten destroyed early in the game, and then somehow managed to come back and win. This is not a testimony to my brilliant end game play, but rather points to the fact that I play against some players who are stronger in the early game than they are in the middle and/or end game. In fact, many times I was a move away from being check mated, yet my opponent must not have seen the mate, made another move, and allowed me to live another day, to fight on, and, ultimately, to win.
My question is confined to the games of this sort that occur between me and an opponent who is a friend; not a complete stranger. Although I do use the term "friend" here rather loosely, to include even an opponent playing against me for the first time, as long as the conversation during the game is good enough. In these cases, I am often temped to say "I thought you had me there", or "had you played this move you would have won the game". My motivation is obviously not to say "Ha ha, you blew it, idiot", but rather to impart some chess wisdom. In my world view, we are not -- or should not be -- ranked linearly, and I may have something to offer to even players who are better than I am, and I will certainly be happy to learn from those rated lower than I am. So my offering chess wisdom in no way means that I think that I am better than you.
But I have seen (in these forums) some players taking offense to the greeting "good luck". In my own dealings with others, both here and elsewhere, I have seen innocent remarks taken totally out of context and causing resentment. So, with this in mind, I ask -- to tell, or not to tell, that is the question. If you lost a game, and then your opponent told you that you could have won (and pointed out how), and did so in a polite way, then how would you take that?