I missed this, but...
If you can't stand up to the most basic level of critique, then maybe you shouldn't really be doing it. If a designer includes an element and does it badly and their defense is "this just felt right", then they really can't complain if they get dragged by people for it.
At the end of the day, no one is saying you can't do this. But you're going to be critiqued for doing so, and it feels like a lot of people are very sensitive that people are not going to take very perfunctory justifications for including things that might need more care than "I just thought it'd be cool". If you can't defend yourself, maybe that should spark self-examination instead of a persecution complex.