I often wonder how in the last 10 or so years software projects became too politicized. What I mean is people viciously arguing on issues adjacent to the softw

I often wonder how in the last 10 or so years software projects became too politicized. What I mean is people viciously arguing on issues adjacent to the software project, rather than the project itself. In the earlier days most arguments were about the direction of the software project itself, and the worst ones were resolved by forking the code.