People's opinions are in many circumstances driven primarily by the current zeitgeist. Less reasoning and more reflection and amplification of large scale moods

People's opinions are in many circumstances driven primarily by the current zeitgeist. Less reasoning and more reflection and amplification of large scale moods. GP mentions in a sibling comment that they've been working with computers for decade, as if that's a long time. Some of us have been at this for many decades, long enough to see the zeitgeist shift and things really change. The current tech backlash mood started sometime in the early 2010s and really kicked into high gear in the mid 2010s. GP has never really known a world that wasn't overtly negative towards tech.