Why does it seem so many WordPress devs argue that users are either too lazy or too stupid to take advantage of information about products they use? Gets on my nerves, seriously.

Yes, changelogs are important, vitally. Yes, people who merely maintain sites use them all the time as reviews prior to pretesting an update. I have paid programming interns that do just that who are not quite yet engineers, but learn through maintainenance and support. We mentor them on the process, which includes prioritization of updating client sites. And that starts with changelogs.

And yes, mere mortal users also check changelogs. Maybe not with the frequency of other groups, but that's not the point. Please, when did WordPress devs become such snobs?