Sorry to hear about this experience. I don't know about the case in question here, but some programming language communities have had to deal with hate, flames

Sorry to hear about this experience. I don't know about the case in question here, but some programming language communities have had to deal with hate, flames, mockery, and the associated trauma, for decades now. And a programming language community is not exactly chartered as a trauma-metabolizing, cathartic organization, to say the least. This means you can get unwarranted, instinctual, direct pushback and possibly rude treatment from community members where you might have the opposite in other, growing communities for example. There are also other lenses that apply here, but that's a big one... It also seems that mapping this kind of outcome onto prime/past-prime doesn't uniformily cover the outcomes either. However there are some interesting workarounds that I've seen, depending on the situation. Anyway, just to say I've noticed this kind of behavior too.