Comment by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF

> I am very confused by people who have emotional reactions to technologies.

Given the phrasing ("simplicity-hating architecture astronauts"), I suspect they're having an emotional reaction to a colleague who, at some point, advocated for their team's use of XML. Which I honestly think is slightly justified if their colleague's advocacy was thoughtless or otherwise unreasonable. Maybe JSON would actually work better for what they were doing. Of course, that said, I also say it's "slightly" justified because good ol' XML did nothing wrong.