I am always surprised by how a significant part of the population are purist or religious mindset about everything, specially tools. They take a rigid hard stan

I am always surprised by how a significant part of the population are purist or religious mindset about everything, specially tools. They take a rigid hard stand,idealized to Totem status and don't move from that as they consider anything else "Tabu". When I read "debug by print VS debuggers", I wonder: why versus? Why you can't use print AND logs AND debuggers AND REPLs AND asserts AND tests AND analyzers or whatever other tool whenever you need it, depending on the problem you face? We use all those tools and way more, and it is probably the flexibility and ability to use all of those what gives us an advantage. It is probably the effort to learn something new until it makes sense, most people just don't do the effort. I remembered the first time I saw asserts everywhere in one of the best programmers' I have worked with code. It looked ridiculous from my old mindset but I said to myself: This guy is really good so odds are it is me the one who does not get it. So I started just doing the same the guy did, removing rational judgment for a while, so I did not let my brain to trick me into not doing the work finding this or that reason. After a while, it made all the sense, my code become much better, I had almost no bugs compared to my early life, and bugs were catched instantly near the place they were and did not produce secondary bugs that were the ones that I catched before, taking me a long time to decipher. Remember that reason alone is very poor for understanding the world. The world is a complex place and reasons are multiple and nuanced. You learn much better if you just copy what the best people do in the field and experience it yourself like kids do with their parents, then you will understand. You will not understand by arguments alone. Your arguments could be brilliant, but you are always modeling the world, and if your model is wrong or lack essential constituents, it is garbage in, garbage out.