It’s a site where programming nerds congregate to waste time arguing with each other. Where do you think you are?

This same pattern used to play out with Ruby, Lisp, and other languages in different eras of this site. It will probably never stop and calling it out seems to just fan the flames more than anything else.

Maybe just a reflex by people that had to hear a decade of "why not C++" whenever it was mentioned that Rust is being used?

As part of the "all software should be liable brigade", it is a matter of misplaced goals after the cybersecurity agencies started looking into the matter.