People do care.
> You only need to be picky with language if a human is going to be working with the code.
Sooner or later humans will have to work with the code - if only for their own self-preservation.
> I get the impression that is not the use case here though
If that's not the use case, there's no legitimate use case at all.
We want that to be true, but it's starting to look like it might not be.