Haha yes! They are the mean street cats of the plant kingdom that despite their benefits they get a bad wrap because of that mean cat facade.
Plus the decades of negative campaigns to stigmatize these wild plant foods for their own profits from herbicides and allopathic medicines.
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I guess as well they used to often be looked upon as famine foods so there would have been a certain social stigma assocaited with them much of the time, in the sense that people don't want to be seen as poor, and what you are forced to eat when you're poor must be inferior to what you buy when you have dosh.