The developer subculture is mostly pro meritocracy, so it isn't really modern progressive. Developers were progressive when meritocracy was progressive, but now they aren't.
Where could we find a definition to check that we were referring to the same thing?
Modern progressive anti-meritocracy people might be loud, but they are a small minority, even at Google at the height of progressivism there you would see pro-meritocracy views winning out strongly among developers. You also see it here, I feel most here on HN are pro meritocracy. There are some progressives around who go into every thread about the topic and post a lot, but meritocracy views and topics tend to get upvoted.