By "ideological zealotry" you mean "scientific research."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01660...
https://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/...
https://hbr.org/2019/04/research-when-airbnb-listings-in-a-c...
And so on.
Reality is AirBnB has been absolutely catastrophic financially in many urban areas, with unhelpful political consequences.
It has been - provably - a huge contributing factor to unaffordable rent increases.