I sympathise; I used to get similar comments although the other way around in carpentry when I insisted on using hand tools (in my own time) when there were perfectly good machines in the next room. I'd use machines for work, but when I'm working for me, it's no-one else's business what methods I choose to use.
I've had comments 'the other way', too. That was very odd. I went to a wool shop which was having a Spinners day, with different fleeces to try, some people from the Spinners Guild demonstrating different wheels etc. I love spinning - on a spindle.
A woman commented mockingly on my spindle as I wandered around the display spinning up bits of fleece here and there; I made it perfectly clear that I spin for my own pleasure and had - still have - not the slightest interest or desire in using a wheel. I mentioned that I liked the pocket size and portability of a spindle and that I couldn't imagine using a spinning wheel on a bus but I often used a spindle in park-and-draw mode when using public transport.
A bit later, I was in the area where people were knitting and spinning and there was some finished, ready-to-use wool for sale. I was looking at some but as I said to the seller, the colour I liked was too thin to use in my bulky-gauge knitting machine.
'Knitting machine!' commented the spindle-mocking woman from earlier, who seemed to be everywhere at the same time (she was one of the organisers) almost spitting in disparagement. 'Why on earth do you want to use one of those things for?'
'Probably for a similar reason that you use a spinning machine, I should think, don't you?' I said sweetly. 'I spin by hand and knit by machine; you spin by machine and knit by hand ...'
HUMPH! she snorted and stalked off ...
