[fizixer]

In addition, I've realized a big blind-spot in these holy wars is the 'familiarity' aspect:

- Users of one platform have gotten used to it, have gotten over, or adapted to some of the pain points, and/or have developed effective workarounds. Having passed all those stages, their day-to-day interaction with that platform is a state of comfort-zone. Call this mental state A.

- When those users attempt to analyze or review a competing platform (which is new to them since they haven't spent time using it), not only are they uncomfortable with the overwhelm that comes from getting inundated with new information, and having to process all of it, they're also keenly perceptive of every "dot", "comma", "cross" that is, metaphorically, misplaced in that competing platform, i.e., any deficiencies of the competing platform jump out at them like a sore thumb. Call this mental state B.

Holy wars occur when users of two competing platform argue in favor of their own platform from a mental state A, while attack the competing platform from a mental state B.

[mschuster91]

Additionally, in "mental state B" it (the fresher/hipstery the project the more) often appears that the documentation is either non existing or horribly outdated, and same for any code samples on Stackoverflow.