That's not really beast mode. That's a guy with a god complex not understanding the problem after refusing to acknowledge he's not the only one who cares about Linux for the past twenty years.
the people I respect and call intelligent are not the ones that shy away from using new and interesting tools.
You know who else isn't shying away from the new tools? Trump and his cronies. Like this argument means literally nothing. People like Peter Thiel have said they want the world to end, these are the lines of people not shying away from the tools that Torvalds is aligning himself with.
Dude needs to fuck off and stop being a single point of failure.