Fear of something big
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R.P. Agarwala (1945) Eastern Economist: “Man will sooner discover a cure for cancer than for macrophobia and microphilia.”
2000, John A. Grant, “wierd visual c++ link error.”, in comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32[1] (Usenet):A certain amount of macrophobia is a good thing, because macros can be used to write unreadable and unmaintainable code.
2005, Howard Schreier, “OT: Things to ponder when you program”, in comp.soft-sys.sas[2] (Usenet):The suffix "itis" means "inflammation of".
So I think what Quentin had was macrophilia, etc.
Some folks have macrophobia.