The problem isn't the people who dislike 0-based indexing but the people who act like religious fundamentalists when they encounter 1-based indexing.

I am okay with both 0-based and 1-based indexing. I program in Julia regularly and it is pretty tiring to hear constant whining about 1-based indexing as if it is the end of the world.

As this article iterates, there are lots of perfectly valid reasons to prefer 1-based indexing. It certainly should not be reason enough to object to using a language.