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Common usage comes from users. Us have every right to apply our pressure on the common usage.

At this point, to this non-native speaker, "than we" sounds bizarrely antiquated.

More than that, "Than We" sounds archaic to me, 19th C at best, i.e. wrong. Who talks like that?

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Carl Sagan did, I recall a quote of his talking about the composition of the brain and he says something along the lines of "to consider that we live in a universe which permits the construction of biological machines as intricate and as subtle as we"

Ohohoho that depends very much on who you're talking to about the English language.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescription

EDIT: These downvotes confuse me. It is a matter of fact that there exists an entire non-trivial linguistic school of thought which holds a belief completely incompatible with what GP just presented as more or less indisputable. GP's authoritative tone is unjustified, regardless of which camp you happen to agree with.