[chipotle_coyote]

> Because it's an easy indicator of someone who has no idea what they're doing in OS development.

From appearances, the lead "someone" on at least the kernel appears to be Travis Geiselbrecht, who worked at the OS and/or kernel level on BeOS, the Danger Hiptop (Sidekick) OS, his own NewOS (now the basis for HaikuOS), and an embedded OS at Jawbone before joining Google and starting work on LK, which is being used as the basis for Zircon and the Android bootloader.

So I think maybe you mean

> Because it's an easy indicator of someone who does not have the same opinions about OS development than I do.

...because, y'know, that's fine! But "this guy obviously has no idea what he's doing?" Gonna agree to disagree there.