Some people thrive inside this mentality, whole others don't go near it.
Not everyone is thinking like this but a lot of people do. So because of that it's a common heuristic to think of it as "war" because there are some people who do that gladly.
In computing this is almost a tradition (Commodore vs Atari vs PC, Windows vs UNIX vs MacOS). It hasn't exactly hindered progress, I'd rather call it healthy competition ;)
It doesn't and I never said anything about preferences directly. There are however culture wars, and they cause problems throughout the industry and discipline.
"My tribe is better than your tribe"
Some people thrive inside this mentality, whole others don't go near it.
Not everyone is thinking like this but a lot of people do. So because of that it's a common heuristic to think of it as "war" because there are some people who do that gladly.