I still can't get over the militant grilled cheese vs melt arguments that were common online a year ago.

If food tastes good, who cares what the hell it's called or how "authentic" it is. No food is authentic from the get-go; someone tries something new one day, other people like it, and it catches on and becomes a thing. If it's not your thing, or if you think it could be done better with x, y, and z, that's fine, everyone has personal tastes and you don't have to like everything.