There's a post about the three tribes of programming. https://josephg.com/blog/3-tribes/

    Tribe 1: You are a poet and a mathematician. Programming is your poetry
    Tribe 2: You are a hacker. You make hardware dance to your tune
    Tribe 3: You are a maker. You build things for people to use

alfiedotwtf falls in the first tribe. You fall in the 2nd. Different tribes have different values, and hence all the back and forth.