I agree with you completely, but the target audience of people who will do such a thing have no clue what a linter, lexer, or parser are. Maybe even a compiler.

I agree with you completely, but the target audience of people who will do such a thing have no clue what a linter, lexer, or parser are. Maybe even a compiler. And that audience is much larger than us folks at the ripe old age of 25+ even realize.