A lot of them got valid points if you hear em out. I'm not for being ignorant which a lot of them can be and blindly hate, but in the current music scene there's a to be made fun of, imo.
I love Alt/Rock and Pop but I know what you're saying but everyone feels like the genre they are stanning for is superior. It's not only Rock.
People should open their minds and listen to all sorts of music. I listen to Pop, Rock, Folk, Indie, RnB, Hip Hop. Sometimes, I'll just put a random station on.
tbh i'm not gonna lie. i've met a lot of rock fans who have some weird superiority complex and refuse to listen to music that doesn't have "real" instruments (even though a computer is arguably an instrument and that a lot of pop music uses actual instruments in it anyway) but at the same time i've met rock music fans who don't care.
if someone is going to judge you as a person because of the music you listen to they're probably not worth your time and if they really get on you about it it just shows that they're an asshole.
people take music way to seriously. listen to what you like and enjoy and anyone who makes fun of you/comes at you for it is stupid.
(know that this goes both ways tho. pop music stans are also obnoxious af and i'm saying that as one of them)