- Years of muscle memory
- git itself uses master
- a lot of tooling / commands expect master do they now need to be aware of main vs master
- I understand the need for some to allow to change the default but just changing it for everyone by default is a step to far
That tooling is wrong: you could always change the default branch on git.
It may be wrong but it's working so when it stops working that is a quantifiable harm.
Compare that to the expressed but not quantified harm by continuing the status quo.
Once we quantify both, let's talk.
If people keep badgering you to do anything, however seemingly benign, it affects you.