If I may add a little to this: I am a native English speaker living in the USA. I constantly feel belittled, undermined, and shunned by the technically litera

If I may add a little to this: I am a native English speaker living in the USA. I constantly feel belittled, undermined, and shunned by the technically literate - especially the hyper technically literate - because of the exact negativity you’re talking about. I can only imagine the level of shock someone who hasn’t built up calluses to the mentality would feel. The negativity is most often this kind of discourse. How gizmo x wont possibly fly because of some rules and general ideas, and how this person’s other gizmo is really the bar to meet, and everything else is not worth their time. I cannot impart to you how terrible I felt for months thinking that I was such a bad engineer that I couldn’t stand up a simple web server on a droplet. I felt like “it’s just so easy and obvious” and I gave up multiple times. This may be crusty software by some people’s standards, but I challenge those same people to put down their high projects, spend 10 minutes writing an issue, or even a weekend with a PR, and dropping this whole schtick of “lol look at the bad developers doing bad things.” This comes off as damning and condemning, and it is by intent, but it’s also a cry for help. If you are technically literate enough to identify issues in something technical.. be the person that shares that understanding freely, instead of holding it like a bar of achievement.