I think that's a perfectly valid appeal to altruism in a tech-savvy audience. It makes sense to take a hit on your individual needs and wants as a user in the

I think that's a perfectly valid appeal to altruism in a tech-savvy audience. It makes sense to take a hit on your individual needs and wants as a user in the short term, if it helps with keeping the tech ecosystem which we collectively inhabit healthy in the long term. Free market forces based on individual self-interest have proven to be really bad at doing that, so altruism is needed to fill the gap. ...by that logic, I prefer software written in Rust to software written in C++ or Java Script even if it's worse from a user perspective, as long as it's tolerably worse rather than just unusable.