I know you're kidding but sadly, I remember a couple of my friends having a nasty argument about ascending armor class in the early 2000s. We're talking shouting red faces, shaking fists, little flecks of spittle at the corner of their mouths, all of it. The whole awful display was surreal to watch.
One of them (let's call him Kevin) was especially salty about it. "It's not real D&D!" he bellowed. "Real D&D has THAC0!" He was mostly upset because it meant that he would have to convert all of his modules and characters and stuff if he wanted to use them under the d20 System. But he was also upset because in the war of ascending vs. descending Armor Class, this was a definitive loss.
"Oh is that a problem?" the other guy (let's call him Chad) would fire back. "I thought you said thay-co is easy! I thought you said anyone can just do it in their head! You always tells us to stop pretending math is hard!" Chad was, and probably still is, a sarcastic jerk.
They almost came to blows over it.
