Opposite of “live small” usually means “each year bigger and better”, which kind of means geometric growth, which almost by definition seems unsustainable.
Would you use a PC without any of keyboard hotkeys?
I’m not fanatical about this, I would use it if I would be forced by circumstances. But I would not be happy about it.
And I still would try to educate/convince older colleagues that hotkeys make things quicker/easier/“reliabler”.
From your speculation of source of touchscreen hate, I see that you feel that tesla has superior car touchscreen experience. And I don't doubt that. But however good you can be with touchscreen, you can do even better if you also have bunch of physical buttons (in addition to touchscreen/must look then point device).
Probably we are like linux users. In total, over whole globe, we make up quite a sizeable number, but in each geographic location we are still a rare breed (not enough to get the enough momentum).
Other reasons for the a bit of noise: speed, simplicity and unambiguity of parsing. (Impacts compilation speed, ease of additional tool development, and ability to continue parsing partially incorrect code)
Edit:
If neutron is likely to decay into. Why *neutrons* dont decay while being part of an atom?
(Wouldn’t this be example of a structure that prevents decaying?)