I can't decide if people are overly competitive and frightened with the increase in the developer population, or if we're just bitter and cynical towards anything we can't put our name on.
I don't think it's that really. It is hipster to snark and dislike things and hipster is in apparently. That being said, some things should be disliked, this not being one of them.
I can't help but think this tendency of ours can't be hacked into something more productive, but I have no solution as of yet. :)