It's just so entitled. "This is something that many people can enjoy!" "Nope, I'm going to make it so no one except me can." Why would you be proud of this?

It felt like he wanted to dress up his shrooms experience as very scientific and I just disagree you should.

That's true enough haha. It's not so much familiarity as rejection of the whole concept that humans aren't the most special, chosen by god, etc. No amount of lobe-finned fish will help with that.