Your first part may be right, however using the term Luddite as a pejorative without understanding what they meant or stood for (given the social context) is a sign of ignorance.
The commenter I was responding to was specifically speaking to code quality concerns generated by AI automation. While the modern usage of “Luddite” tends to generalize towards rejection of any new technology. When I mentioned “Luddite-like rejection of the technology because of some offended artistic notions” it was specific to the Luddite complain that the automation of would lower quality.
That might be a specific detail in the history that you may have missed, forgotten, or perhaps simply ignored—but it’s an important detail with a direct parallel in this conversation.