A more familiar example to many on HN of the same regrettable response would be the way React was first received. Despite having an interesting approach to solving some common practical problems in web development, and despite the underlying theory being tried and tested in other contexts, some people seemed to reject it just because it didn't maintain a clear separation of HTML, CSS and JS code, which in their minds was a deal-breaker even though there's no objective reason that such a separation is necessary.