Over-developed substance-over-style sensitivity is often just functional fixedness around favored tools. Common reason people go curmudgeon.
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If you can't recognize value/importance in ends, you assume whatever was achieved through more demanding means is more valuable/important
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People like this are deeply offended when people get real value doing something the easy way, when there is a perfectly acceptable hard way
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Like how so many devs spend time rolling their own note-taking software, while railing at the tiny inefficiencies of established ones
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You said it yourself - the root is the inability to recognise value/importance of the ends. And agree - it's absolutely is a thing.


