It was a hypothetical, a thought experiment of the form "if it happened that an Enterprise Architect believed..., ", would you let that influence your behavior or would you say the disapproval is their problem (even if it does cost you something to ignore their disapproval)?

It wasn't a very good example though. I guess my point is that the stereotype-based disapproval of ignorant people who think that knowing somebody wrote a fanfiction gives them deep insight into their personality and their worth as human beings is not something to lose sleep over, it's something to be ignored or even ridiculed.