but I'm not an idiot,

And you don't think that makes you the exception among this cohort?

First off, the luddites were right back in the day.

Second, just because you can use something effectively doesn't make it good in general.

There are people who can have multiple credit cards for years and never carry a balance, or walk into a casino with $100, lose it all, and quit right there.

But most people can't, and being one of the few that can doesn't make it safe or good overall. Credit cards and casinos are still predatory and a detriment overall to the population.

I puffed a few cigs back in high school and college to see what all the fuss was about, didn't get it. But I personally know multiple people that did the same thing, got hooked almost immediately, and took years to quit. Cigarettes are bad for you and highly addictive. The fact that they never hooked me doesn't change that.

Third, I'm not sure how using LLMs is "fighting against big tech." unless you just mean using their tools to build FOSS more effectively.

But that's the whole point, it's not at all clear that LLMs enable that for most people. In fact, there's already quite a bit of data to indicate the opposite. That using LLMs results in worse code, worse development of skills like critical reasoning and problem solving, worse productivity, worse security, and undeniable environmental harm.

This isn't just about anti-ai mentality, it's the "I deleted the authorship so you can't fork it out or prove that it's causing issues". This kind of insanity has been happening repeatedly on that project, it's time to let it go and find new solutions.