"Exaggerated" as he actually voices his extreme views. Many people look down on the people from the other camp but never actually say anything to not sound ridiculous.
Not to mention, ruining personal relationships over bikeshedding is rightfully considered utterly toxic behavior in the real world.
Well, I'm Team Space for sure, but I just think the environment should take care of that. I mean, who sets up their IDE so it inserts tab characters. Alternatively who goes about indenting their code by hitting spacebar multiple times?