I feel this is somehow reducing all expression of opinion as performative, i.e. serving to heighten the social standing of the expressor. I have a handful of other motivations:

  - to persuade
  - to develop my worldview (speaking, typing, thinking all use different neural pathways)
  - to collect feedback and be challenged

The activism against “performative” activism is equally grating when it misfires, and the movement probably hasn’t even reached its zenith yet.