That opinion is work-ethic related, not CUDA-related. The stance is reasonable too; why complain about characteristics of CUDA that can't be changed? Your job

That opinion is work-ethic related, not CUDA-related. The stance is reasonable too; why complain about characteristics of CUDA that can't be changed? Your job as a CUDA engineer isn't to decide whether or not a proprietary API/compiler is the right call. Your boss made that choice for you when they hired you, and you accept the tradeoff if you want to keep working there. It's like someone protesting Dotnet because they wish they spent the rest of their life working with Perl instead. You can do that, but it's a completely different job with different pay grades and demands.