Not sure where you are getting “nasty” from.
Some people simply dont agree with all of this magical properties that supposedly come from a style of writing words that is perennially carped about on FR whenever the subject comes up.
It certainly doesn’t make your writing neater, make you illiterate if you don’t do it, and it doesn’t make bad writing “good”. One thing I notice is that it encourages people to write too fast, and making what they write look sloppy.
So beside just feeling smug, what is the point of it?
I smell a nasty because of words like fanatic and smug.
Smug, you said? Some people who think dressing neatly is all about being smug. The same arguments get used. But people will use anything to be smug. They have an attitude to exercise.
Meanwhile, I think the effort of the lawmakers will not be without rewards—it’s in a good direction, not a bad direction. And it’s quite easy to teach and not hard to learn—unless unteachable. All in all, thumbs up.