Can confirm, lived exactly that situation.

I think you can generalize it about any information that would shatter your identity.

It's the reason some people will tell you Arch Linux worked perfectly on their machine despite having plenty of problems.

The reason why people adopting a religion, a diet or new sexuality will probably not tell you if they are unhappy about the consequences.

Graham did say we should keep our identity small: https://paulgraham.com/identity.html