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dwm in particular mentions that it's elitist in order to prevent stupid questions from novices:

Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it’s pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions. There are some distributions that provide binary packages though.

Also anyone who has ever subscribed to the suckless mailing list can testify to the elitist sentiment among many of its users.