For me, it's simple: because vaping isn't a contest to see who can vape on the lowest resistance. The level of one-upping and bragging and condescension, a prime example being in the OP, is unappealing to the extreme.
It's YouTube videos like this one which draws the ignorant and uneducated non-vapers into sub-ohming. Their only priority is to make the Big Clouds, and the vast majority are not interested in learning the basics of mod & battery safety, Ohm's law basics, learning how to use an ohm reader, recognizing shorts, etc. They don't have a clue that if not used responsibly they could be holding a firecracker in their hand.
Add to this the growing number of vape shops who are selling novices their
first e-cig device consisting of a mechanical mod with a sub-ohm coil that they made for the customer, with no instructions or precautions...only to go home and make some clouds. Some of these setups have been with inappropriate batteries. This is negligence.
Then these same customers come to ECF asking why their hot spring keeps collapsing, or why their mod and/or their batteries are getting too hot to hold. Ask them the resistance of their coil, and they say they don't know, the salesperson made the coil for them or they don't own an ohm reader.
One customer asked the shop salesman to make a 1 ohm coil for his new RBA because he knew he didn't have the correct batteries for sub-ohms. He brought the RBA home and checked the coil with his own multimeter and the coil measured out at 0.2 ohms. The customer was beyond angry.
