This one goes round and round.
It's the old traditionalist v. modernist debate.
It got killed off in sailing some years ago, is to a large degree dead in general aviation, but evidently not quite yet. It will never die because GA is full of characters who just love the old ways of doing things.
Give them the open cockpits and goggles and stopwatches and let them fly the way they want to fly, and leave them alone in the forums. They never make a meaningful contribution.
The rest of us can move on.