In all fairness most developers are equally impacted by this.

This comes up frequently in a variety of discussions most notably execution speed and security. Developers will frequently reason upon things to which they have no evidence, no expertise, and no prior practice and come up with invented bullshit that doesn't even remotely apply. This should be expected, because there is not standard qualification to become a software developer, and most developers cannot measure things or follow a discussion containing 3 or more unresolved variables.