If you think any of this is rooted in either elitism or pedantry then yours is a case of mediocrity.
You don't sign my paychecks & I don't take orders from you.
Do you mean something like this? Or do you mean like this? Perhaps you meant this.
Rationalize it any way you want to protect your frail ego but you still don't know what it is you don't know yet you think you're in some sort of position to be advising others to mangle their firewall — of all things & especially when it's related to VPN functionality — & it is, somehow, some way, to be considered sound reasoning. If you're as old as you claim to be then it might be time to check for early onset.
You didn't "solve" anyone's problem — you created new, critically severe ones.