[amanzi]

That ship has sailed, I've never heard anyone call it "jiff". The "Two types of vowels" argument doesn't hold water, because the exceptions to the rule are all so common that they feel like the norm. Also, in the tech industry, words starting with 'g' are usually pronounced with a hard 'g': git, gig, gigabyte, gigabit, and gif.

I think the only people who care about the pronunciation are the few who are clinging to the soft-g camp. On that note, the end of the page clearly contains a bit of self-reflection: "Holding on dearly to that pronunciation because it’s infinitely intertwined to your sense of identity?"