Seems like there are a couple of people with this mindset at every company. “Let’s write X”, “are you crazy, no one writes X! We can use Y!”, “But Y lacks Z”, “No! The thing you want Y to do is bad! You should not want Z! Do W instead - it is the correct way”

Stop larping as graybeards, and try to actually do something instead of endlessly bike shedding your cargo cult.