> Why do people make hating a tool their entire personality? I have noticed this same thing with languages like Go

It runs very deep for some people. "That's not Pythonic!" or "That's all unreadable line-noise!"

It becomes a kind of language bigotry similar to English-speakers hating a foreign language. And yet, as you rightly say, these are just programming tools.

I suppose that when humans invest in any type of language, they form and protect the orthodoxy.