People having emotional reactions as if some tribe they imagine they belong to has been insulted by someone else who they imagine belongs to some other imaginary tribe, instead of just, "yeah that's wrong nobody should do that, let's do better" has always been one of the most off-putting things to me about the whole free software community, such as it is. It was annoying on Usenet in the mid-'90s, it was obnoxious whenever RMS prioritized that sort of thinking over actually just turning the other cheek and making the world a better place, and wow does it not do anyone any good decades later.
My theory is that people get sucked into these black holes of rational thought because, like me, a lot of people drawn to the open source world tend to be obsessive introverts who often feel more comfortable with computers than people, and like me, are susceptible to getting sucked into feelings of belonging and camaraderie with often imaginary subcultures/tribes/families online or elsewhere, when in reality the only common thread is they're random people from mailing lists trying to work together towards a very narrow range of common goals.
The instant people get sucked into the dark side, next thing you know they're going around IRL saying stuff like "ACTUALLY it's guh-noo SLASH lee-nooks and anything else is disrespectful and I will personally feel disrespected by anyone who defies me". And then all is lost and this whole thing becomes a net negative for everyone involved. No fun, no fun at all. Nobody should feel personally insulted by anyone pointing out obvious technical flaws in anything really, including their own work, but certainly not in open source operating systems that they may or may not even contribute to.