On this case, the “noo it wasn’t a Nazi salute, or uh, it wasn’t intentional” is a “nazis paid me to say this” response. At best it’s “I haven’t seen it, and I don’t trust you” answer.
But well, the people criticizing “centrists” are usually on that later category, and usually for good reason, so their experience may be biased.
Last time my printer did that, there was an alignment problem between the extruder and the end of the hot-end. It later also started to clog the hotend, when the alignment got worse.
The other time I had a similar problem, I’ve unknowingly lost my slicer settings and had the filament size misconfigured.