I think the point we're making is that most of the people arguing over that PR didn't have a strong opinion about the feature itself, but were irritated by the

I think the point we're making is that most of the people arguing over that PR didn't have a strong opinion about the feature itself, but were irritated by the weirdly philosophical reason for rejecting it. (I don't care what color you paint your bike shed, but if your local government says you can't paint it green because that's surrendering to the plants, I'm likely to have an opinion about that.) Obviously at some point (and the earlier the better) you still need to to throw up your hands and walk away, but I'd say pig wrestling is the better metaphor here.