The point of these articles and other opinion-making (such as right here on HN) is that we don’t choose tools. We are given the popular tools. They are popular because other developers chose them at the companies were we work. And they chose them because they thought they would be suitable for the purpose.

So if you want to do everything in your power to prevent a tool you think is terrible from being more popular - you can do very little apart from writing opinion in blogs or forums, improving the tool, or provide better alternatives.

Shitting on a technology might seem like the least noble of the 3, but it’s likely quite time-efficient compared to the other two. It’s certainly not useless.