The fantasy genre fan-base is infested with miserable grognards who just want the same post-tolkien slop forever and are disgusted by anything that takes fantasy outside that psychological playpen; but fortunately I believe this problem will mostly disappear when Gen-X does 😊
Yeah Magic players famously hate when their fantasy has robots, time travel, extradimensional alien monsters, larger than life archetype characters and bio-engineered supersoldier experiments
you say it as a joke, but yes. I've seen people cry about mechas then turn around and praise urza's titans