Absolute opinions are simple and travel better on media.

"The right tool for the job" is too complicated for a lot of people to understand. Tradeoffs? Tradeoffs require understanding.

"XYZ is the best, just use it" is much easier, especially if you don't know how to make decisions and don't really care. Then you defend your non-decision by parroting what you read.

I remember a product manager talking crap about Kafka years ago, and I started digging in as to why he didn't like it, and all of his reasons were marketing FUD from competitors. It was odd, his understanding of it was a Potemkin village.

All tools presumably solve a problem. If you understand that envelope you can figure out if it works for you and your envelope.