Comment by shadowgovt

> but apparently some people are incapable of compartmentalizing

You hit the nail on the head

> I hate how common this has become

That's to be expected when we widen the number of people participating in the technical community. Compartmentalization is an outlier behavior.

There was a time when some folks wouldn't have batted an eye that Reiser killed his wife if his filesystem was good. The median tech community member uses a different standard these days.