No one is mastering anything by censoring themselves - and that's exactly what it is, you still used the word just replaced some letters with dashes. I'd honestly understand if someone said "I wish articles wouldn't use profanities in their titles" - then yes, I'm 100% onboard. But using the profanity, just with dashes instead of letters? It's performative, not dignified.

It's the use-mention distinction. Discussing the word shit and its effect on discourse is different from using it and achieving those effects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinctio...

I think the primary discussion is more about using the word "enshittening" over a word like "degeneration" than adding dashes.