To be clear, it had nothing to do with “resistance to change” and everything to do with his attitude that “You are stupid if you don’t brew the same way I do” and then the argumentative crap that it spawned. If you don’t see that, I don’t know what else to tell you.
I’m all for those people who want to LoDo brew … that doesn’t mean people are “stupid” if they choose not to.
Furthermore, nothing that has been discussed in this thread is new or discovered via LoDo brewing techniques. The dark malt antioxidant properties go back to Papazian’s first book for crying out loud.