I think the issue here isn't a degree of snobbishness, but one of happiness.
Many if not most people here started with something small and graduated up the latter to whatever degree they felt comfortable with their current favourite PV. For me, it turned out I made a pretty good choice when I started out with the eGo, so that was really my main PV for nearly a year (along with the various upgrades/attachments, from Mega atties to the tanks I ended up hating to dual coil cartos that I ended up loving). I finally landed on a ProVari because ultimately, I wanted something that could adjust itself to any juice, any atty, any carto I attached to it so I could always get the best vape no matter what I've got.
I love my ProVari. It's bloody awesome. But I couldn't suggest it to a newbie. There's a little too much technicality about it that a newbie may have a hard time wrapping their head around, what with the voltages and resistances and Ohm's Law and all that. But, I can understand why some people might want to suggest it -- or Darwin, or Buzz Pro, or Silver Bullet, or GLV2, or REO, or GGTS, or whatever. They are all great PVs and make for fantastic vaping experiences -- and importantly, better vaping experiences than what we all started with.
We love vaping. Each of our personal discoveries of E-cigs was revelatory and life-changing in more ways than one, and we're all so thankful for their existence and what they've done for our lives that we want to share not only our experience with vaping in general, but with our favourite hardware, too, because we also want newbies to have the best experiences that they possibly can so that they, too, can see how amazing vaping can be with the right combination of hardware and juice and run-on sentences such as this one.
But sometimes it is easy to forget what it took to get where we are and how important each of those steps along the way were to our own understanding of E-cigs and the vaping experience. Sometimes we seek to offer newbies shortcuts to the best that vaping has to offer while forgetting what knowledge and personal experience this also circumvents. As much as I'd love to offer a suggestion for a kick-.... mod to a newbie, I'll tend to offer something a little more modest to start off with so they can discover more of what they like in a setting with less pressure and, perhaps more importantly, less monetary investment. Although in certain cases I'll suggest a mod or two if they have specific needs that only a mod can provide.
So yes, I do agree, gunning hard for the mods with newbies is probably not the best course of action when their understanding of the vaping world at large is pretty small, and I think some would do well to consider the needs of the newbie above the preferences of oneself. But I also understand the desire to push for those favourite mods, and I don't think it comes from any desire to be snobby, merely to proffer what, in people's experience, has been their best vape ever in the hopes that the newbie, too, can experience such vaping nirvana.
