You haven’t really provided any examples. You talk about Star Citizen, which is a very controversy laden community and that is mostly composed of non-programmer

You haven’t really provided any examples. You talk about Star Citizen, which is a very controversy laden community and that is mostly composed of non-programmers. It is probably the gaming community I would expect to find the most cynicism. Programming is like many things and online communities are formed of many different personalities. Programming is particularly accessible to younger people in ways other engineering fields are not, or at least as readily. There are also many different skills levels of people that participate in programming communities. But then you talk about using obtuse terminology as a virtue signal of intelligence or something. Have you read historical, literary, or other analysis / commentary texts? Such terminology abounds in those communities, are they immature? The Internet is just a weird place, which is just a reflection of how people are.