If you listen carefully, you can hear them moving the goal posts from "countering Facebook knowledge" to "must be universally better in every scenario"
You say thats not valid criticism, but yet I can't think of another language that has a debate over semicolons.
Maybe that's just me not be exposed in my career to more ones like that, and there are still petty squables in every language yes.
But the fact you have to have the second paragraph, and defend it, is the problem your replying to. something so core to a language like line ending syntax, is figured out in all other laugauges. You don't have to mentally be prepared to unfril that layer of syntax.
Sorry typo. They're not for profit.
Which is not what both github and gitlab are trying to be.
Why should they spend money hosting content the people who are dontating don't want?