Maybe not the best choice of word, but I think that people who call themselves "liberals" actually have very conservative goals, in the sense of being against change. They might come around to a type of 'yimby' when it comes to building apartments or whatever, but e.g. the opposition to meritocratic selection processes in guise of equality among identities is actually about preserving inherited wealth and social capital. This manifests in lots of areas as a default dislike of any major technological change, because that usually implies the risk of mobility between socioeconomic strata.