It's relatively common to see a backlash against something online, leading to far more attention to the original act.
At what point do we say "that's just an individual with an odd worldview" rather than "this is a viewpoint that I want to discuss/dissect"?
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I've heard of 'blub languages', where you don't realise that other languages have better abstractions until you've experienced them.
I think the same thing happens with individual features. I've seen several C++ folks miss variadic generics in Rust, but I've not written enough C++ to feel it.
One interesting side effect of software productivity increasing: libraries can become more idiosyncratic.
It's easier than ever to release important libraries as an individual. Single-maintainer projects inevitably have more personality -- for both good and bad!
One remarkable aspect of the JS packaging ecosystem is that people package individual functions. For example, lodash.sortby: https://www.npmjs.com/package/lodash.sortby
It shows how lightweight the packaging process is. I've not seen this happen in other ecosystems.