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That's not comparable

It very much is. Just saying "nuh-uh" doesn't make it any less so.

If you prefer, though, you can think of it as a craftsman refusing to use a tool because his mom told him not to, even if that tool is the best one for specific parts of the job.

On the contrary, I'd argue overly relying on swear words (...)

Of course. Just like overly relying on playing ONLY the G string would make your guitar playing suck even more than if you only used the other 5.

That's not a valid argument for avoiding words that are perfectly useful when deployed well, though. Especially not when it leads to the mangling almost beyond recognition of a perfectly descriptive and well-known neologism such as enshittification.

(as is the case in today's society)

..how fucking old and stuck in your ways are you??

I'm in my 40s and I haven't met anyone who's not either my parents' age or older, or ridiculously conservative who thinks "the kids today swear too much" lol.

If anything, people self-censor much MORE than they did a decade or two ago when social media and people trying to promote themselves while desperately avoiding offending anyone's delicate sensibilities wasn't so ubiquitous.

significantly reduces the richness of your vocabulary.

On the contrary, people who swear have consistently been shown to have much larger vocabularies of not just swears, but all other words too.

In any case, nobody is forcing you to self-censer, so why impose your opinion onto others?

Nobody's forcing you to object to my objection to unnecessary and linguistically ruinous censorship, so why impose YOUR opinion on ME?

Maybe because Lemmy is, amongst other things, a collection of discussion forums where sharing your opinions and discussing them with others is the POINT? That's my reason, anyway.

That and because I sometimes have poor impulse control when someone is wrong on the internet