How did the "royal we" arrive at this "reasoning?" If popularity were a valid signal of importance, people should only express their eternal love for PHP and J

How did the "royal we" arrive at this "reasoning?" If popularity were a valid signal of importance, people should only express their eternal love for PHP and Javascript, and ignore computer science, functional programming languages, computer engineering and little-known-but-really-fucking-important packages. Call me ageist, but code churn and labeling projects "dead" adds nothing in the context of portable code which has matured to the point stability; there's zero functional value added in refactored code being "new." Ongoing support, adding features and keeping pace with platform compatibility are separate issues from judging code to be "inferior" despite working because it's "old." What may seem "dead" to people whom don't know about particular packages but may well just be stable and resting very quietly because it just works.