This reads as, "My personal preference is for people not to argue for their personal preference." Before you go on to argue for your personal preference.
> So how about we get off our proverbial soapbox and enjoy the fact that we are lucky enough to work in an industry where we can choose the tools we like.
Sure, we can choose the tools we like provided those tools are popular enough to have an ecosystem of jobs, or we're willing to shoehorn ourselves into a narrow set of jobs.
...which is why I'm sick of languages getting popular based on hype rather than pragmatics. Every Go job is a job that I've either got to reject based on the tool, or use their terrible tool.
I haven’t argued my personal preference though. All I’m saying is that arguing that your personal preference is anyway more “correct” than others is about as sensible as trying to discuss the science behind religion.
Yes you have, and you're still doing it.
Your "preference" in this case, which you are arguing for, is to not have people argue for their language preferences.
So how about we get off our proverbial soapbox and enjoy the fact that we are lucky enough to work in an industry where we can choose the tools we like.