Yeah. I think I'm just particularly poor at extending empathy to people who get on their soapboxes about it because I'm literally never doing things for popularity, I'm doing them because I like them. If you can convince that I should make more of something else because it's similarly fun then I am all game for that, but telling me "you shouldn't be making the thing you want" is just gonna result in me doing nothing.

And sometimes comparisons are inevitable. If we're talking about A/B vs B/C then obviously you gotta at least mention C while discussing the merits and demerits of both.