I see it as essentially ignorance amongst those drinking the Kool-Aid of the steel cult.

A steel bike is NEVER the right bike for the application, there is always another material that does EVERYTHING steel does better, lighter, faster, more efficiently, stronger, or stiffer. Always.

Everything a handcrafted high end steel frame can do an engineered titanium bike can do better. Everything...

Its all about snob appeal, some need to validate oneself as more sophisticated, learned, or enlightened. The best thing is that the personality types that scoff at titanium, carbon, and aluminum are also the same types that have to validate themselves as cyclists on every group ride. In this, there is some sense of delicious justice. Their bikes are horrendously inefficient, are boat anchors, and they have to put out significantly more wattage to just keep pace with the titanium, carbon, and even the garage sale Cannondale crowd.

People don't remember where this all came from in the first place. When the US market changed the paradigm with oversized aluminum bikes those that stood the most to lose, the boutique builders of handmade Italian steel bikes, started a whispering campaign about these new bikes being 'too stiff', too this and too that.

The only place for steel is on cheap bikes in India and China, and also to separate rich ignorant vain Americans from their money.

As for you titanium bike, enjoy it. What it really comes down to is that your status symbol challenges their desperate attempt to validate and signal their own sense of self. Which is sad, because riding a bike should put a smile on your face, and most definitely should not be something to arm the arsenal of vanity and false pride.