I’m not sure why they were so weirdly hostile and yet kept engaging when they clearly didn’t want to have a conversation about it.

In any case, I agree. Idiots are all over the place and like a lot of different things. Unless you only want to consume works that use obtuse language to scare away dumbos, you’ll have to reconcile with that fact. That is, of course, assuming the person doesn’t find certain forms of idiocy agreeable.