As time progressed it has become easy enough folks who dont know what they are doing can use many of the distributions.
Those folks are destroying what used to be a wonderful intelligent linux community.
Nobody is forcing you to interact with those "new users", if you don't like them, ignore them.
Frankly, if everyone had your attitude, your Linux community will be dead and gone in a few short years as time progresses, and your old users pass away.
I've been a Linux user for a long time, I and many other long time Linux users do not share this persons opinions. New Linux users, keep coming, the vast majority of us are not elitist.
It is time we started doing that