What's with all the cult-like behaviour in this subreddit?

The responses to all of the recent posts talking about the changes to the free version that completely neuter it and make it nigh unusable have been...genuinely insane to witness? And it took me some time and mulling it over to even try and figure out WHY people would be responding like this, defending a completely indefensible change with nonsense reasoning about basic use of a feature being abuse, while not actually understanding anything they're saying, considering we're talking about the Edit and Regene