I see this pattern in a lot of things.

- people who preach against PV solar... while people I actually know broke even 10 or more years ago and have been happily getting "free power" for a lot of their needs

- people who preach against electric cars... while people I actually know are driving them with no "range anxiety" or "replaced main batteries", but their non-engineer spouse/kids are driving the cars fine too.

- people who preach that tesla self driving isn't viable/etc... while lots of people are using tesla to drive themselves around for > 90% of their driving