This falls in line with CP Snow's point about the two cultures of academia. The media creation of new atheism--which has already fractured along political lines--was dominated by scientific atheists as opposed to philosophical ones. Much of scientific culture is infected with scientism, with a condescending prejudice against the humanities. That scientism is a hangover from positivism, as philosophers know. The old atheists, by contrast, including Nietzsche were more philosophical and existential.

So it's a question of fashion in packaging the atheistic upshot of modernity.

https://medium.com/@benjamincain8/scientism-and-the-downfall-of-new-atheism-919213775919?source=friends_link&sk=c498c50bbf9c48358087e8163fa6d27f

https://medium.com/interfaith-now/the-collapse-of-new-atheism-and-the-rise-of-godless-culture-f8a5a1e27efa?sk=59427ec6148ca793376c3301563b5ad0

https://medium.com/interfaith-now/are-atheists-overconfident-in-reason-e589eccb1cd8?sk=f23d1cf246325465bf331b55a5a5903d