They really are not though. There may be the odd person here or there who is causing wipes and posting meters, but I suspect that the majority of the people in the thread opposed to meters don’t have accurate perspectives of what actually caused wipes in their groups.
A blanket statement like “meters are cancer” shows (at least in my opinion) a distaste for metrics, which are quite helpful for optimizing one’s own performance. This points to problems, and experiencing wipes consistently not necessarily being due to people who post numbers.
(Maybe they are posting numbers so often because you are performing so poorly)