Further, commentors on any particular subject are, I think, statistically more likely to be monomaniac obsessives, and that correlates with poor social skills (e.g. truth-seeking at the cost of empathy). In other words, autism.

The cpp community is possibly the worst offender on some of the points. Speakers walking on eggshells and having to have a laundry list of caveats comes to mind.

It's more mature in the sense that you probably wont see a lot of memes, the insecurity and ego still permeate the venue and community.

I'd hate to put myself out there doing a talk and be on the receiving end of that sort of indirect criticism. It wouldn't be feedback to the person, it'd just be something for us to argue about whether they're exhibiting a given behavior or not.

They applied all the rules and "best practices" they saw on Medium with maximum strictness (of course) and were very adamant on doing everything now in the "right true way" in the codebase.

I had trouble putting words on that behavior, describing it as "religious fundamentalism, but with code", so I'm glad to finally have a better word for that.

* It was a simple corporate website, with a few, simple forms (though with visuals bells and whistles added), and some semi-customized pages. It could have been a minor project (in term of technical complexity, not business impact), and somehow was so overcomplicated that there was like 5 or 6 front-end dev working full time on useless churn, like adding more configurability to their deployment process, or changing a library with another based on the number of Github stars.