It’s not necessarily an end in and of itself, but a scenario like this can lead to fairly arbitrary factors deciding what EA “is” in a self reinforcing cycle. Let’s say a popular news outlet wrote a critical article about EA and then many EAs decided to stop identifying with it because of the now negative connotations. It seems wrong to let external forces dictate what EA Is in that way.
It’s not necessarily an end in and of itself, but a scenario like this can lead to fairly arbitrary factors deciding what EA “is” in a self reinforcing cycle. Let’s say a popular news outlet wrote a critical article about EA and then many EAs decided to stop identifying with it because of the now negative connotations. It seems wrong to let external forces dictate what EA Is in that way.