Y10K proofing. It's a practice of the Long Now Foundation:
https://longnow.org/ideas/02013/12/31/long-now-years-five-di...
https://longnow.org/ideas/02013/12/31/long-now-years-five-di...
You, on the other hand, are veering directly into ad-hom and that's not nice. We can talk about how we like to use language without calling out other peoples' language choices.