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What maybe lies at the heart of this (leaving aside any personal fandom for Sanders and/or antipathy toward Warren or whatever) is a misunderstanding of how the party nomination process really works on the part of Jacobin and certain other parts of the Sanders left.
For instance, in this fascinating article from January, @sunraysunray doesn't trust that Warren is liked by "mainstream Democratic Party policy types". Actually, that's a HUGE ASSET for her! Building a coalition is how nominations are usually won. bit.ly/2Edt9CC 
In the context of Jan., where Bernie is polling at ~20% and maybe you can pretend Biden doesn't exist?, it makes more sense. But Sanders backers, with their allergy to coalition-building, have never had a good plan for how to get beyond ~25-30%. And now he's backslid to ~16%.
p.s. It's quite relevant that D delegate allocation rules are highly proportional, and that you need a majority (not plurality) of delegates to win on the 1st ballot. The rules are deliberately designed to reward coalition-building and punish "win the largest faction" strategies.
