I want to state my opinion about this, but as most of the comments demonstrate, nobody in this debate is really listening to the other side. Instead, we simply have people trying to yell out their opposition as loud as possible in a long string of "You don't understand!" "No, you don't understand!" ad nauseum.

Throw in thousands of Correlation does not imply Causation logical fallacies on both sides, and you have one of the most dysfunctional and useless arguments in all of programming literature.