How did nitrous get such a bad rep...?

in the late 80's we literally drug a 318 904 dart sport off a friend's property , slapped an Edelbrock intake and an AVS on it , a set of Taylor wires , new plugs, took it out that night out to our usual 1/4 street racing blacktop stretch. we SMOKED a tuned port fuel injected 350 powered Camaro with that old baby blue Dodge. afterwords , they were so butt hurt about it they accused us of spraying it and hiding the bottle. I opened both doors, hood and trunk and told them to find it. these bitches were so pissed they were yelling calling us cheaters as they climbed back in their POS Camaro and left. that wasn't the only incident .back then when guys would get smoked on the street they automatically used the bottle as a scapegoat to justify getting their asses handed to them when they thought there was no way, their junk could get beat without any power adders. they just couldn't believe that greasy , smoking 318 could run as hard as it did. in all fairness , it did have an 8 1/4 355 sure grip LOL ...