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Common usage comes from users. Us have every right to apply our pressure on the common usage.

At this point, to this non-native speaker, "than we" sounds bizarrely antiquated.

More than that, "Than We" sounds archaic to me, 19th C at best, i.e. wrong. Who talks like that?

Carl Sagan did, I recall a quote of his talking about the composition of the brain and he says something along the lines of "to consider that we live in a universe which permits the construction of biological machines as intricate and as subtle as we"

Elisabeth II

Ohohoho that depends very much on who you're talking to about the English language.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescription

EDIT: These downvotes confuse me. It is a matter of fact that there exists an entire non-trivial linguistic school of thought which holds a belief completely incompatible with what GP just presented as more or less indisputable. GP's authoritative tone is unjustified, regardless of which camp you happen to agree with.