Such advocates are the ones with the credentials to actually bother listening to, like core devs or the people who literally wrote the book on understanding the technical nature of the system.

They're not the fringe, they're the core that the fringe pump monkeys looking for a quick buck latch onto and promptly ignore.

The majority of people who talk about literally anything aren't worth listening to, and if you can't differentiate between the two, we have bigger problems to work through.