I like to read and sometimes participate in these types of arguments, but do people actually hope to convince one another? We're all just flexing our viewpoint

I like to read and sometimes participate in these types of arguments, but do people actually hope to convince one another? We're all just flexing our viewpoint and knowledge, as far as I can tell. If you told, for example, suckless that their page builder code[0] should not use string wrangling they'd certainly laugh and ignore the advice. [0] https://git.suckless.org/sites/file/build-page.c.html#l23 https://git.suckless.org/sites/file/build-page.c.html#l23