This is the antivax sentiment of the IT world. It's new! It's shiny! Give me some Ivermectin because I know things other people don't! (Yes, I realize you're probably joking. I'm not, particularly.)
It's like you're just repeating the last inane discussion YouTube got you hooked on in order to get some ad clicks.
What does ivermectin have to do with anything? Are you suffering from chronic parasitic infection?
You have it reversed. “I don’t want the new vaccine! Who knows what the long term side effects are!” is equivalent to the technical curmudgeon. The voluntary early trial test group are the bleeding edge tech people. The Ivermectin crowd is the guy that suggests rewriting the backend in Haskell for no good reason.