I don't know. I'm inclined to believe the world would be a better place if people thought less about their principles and more about the situation at hand. I've had bad experiences with people who do things "as a matter of principle" or insisting "it's the principle of the thing". That has usually signaled behavior that is only justifiable by some abstraction, but otherwise makes no sense.

This case, for example, where SourceHut was going to make a change which would inflict inconvenience on it's users when they had a clear way to avoid it, but didn't want to because it was really Google's fault. Possibly it did some good, but from reading the whole thing, it looks like the end result is SourceHut finally agreeing to have the refresh turned off, like they could have done initially, while the Go team actually had already been working on a fix. A lot of drama, with questionable benefits is not unusual for people who do things for the principle.