I don't think the disdain was for seeking improvements. It was for the techbros thinking they can solve any problem, even in domains they have never worked in, better than anyone actually working in said domain.

The disdain on my part was very much towards the egotistical tech bros who were convinced they could do better in fields they had no background in.

It used to get really tiring seeing the rhetoric about every single field of expertise. So many tech bros that were simultaneously experts in law, geopolitics, elevators, building codes, architecture, sports, transportation, finance, global logistics, and beyond. Literally from one second to the next. Any time anything wasn't 100% perfect, it was because the people working in the field were idiots and they could have done it so much better.