Nothing to do with fanboyism. Both options have their pluses and minuses, but engadget & co are trying to brainwash everyone into seeing only the good sides of capacitive and only bad sides of resistive.

Resistive is much more comfortable to use if you like using your nails instead of your whole finger. The nail is more accurate, doesn't obscure the item, and on many phones you can rest your finger on the screen without triggering an action. On capacitive you have to keep your finger in the air.

Additionally, resistive offers much better accuracy for using the stylus. They're also trying to brainwash people into believing you should never have to use something so antique, but in reality there are many things that require such precision, such as spreadsheets, any more complex game, and running desktop apps either on the phone or another X11 client.

Rest assured, the base UI won't require you to use the stylus, but the OS will also give you so much more than the iPhone ever could.

And this is probably the most civilized reply to your statements you can expect to read.