I fail to see the difference between that and what Gaetz did.
If you fail to see the difference, then why are you complaining? You cheered on Gaetz when he did it, so you have no principled basis on which to condemn those who are doing it now.
I personally do see a difference, though. When there was an open vote in conference for everybody to vote for who they wanted as Speaker back in December, McCarthy got 188 votes to just 31 for Andy Biggs. McCarthy was the clear, freely chosen majority choice. And then, after McCarthy was removed, Scalise won the head-to-head vote against Jordan.
Jordan, in contrast, only won a majority after the same dissenters refused to vote for either McCarthy or Scalise, making their election by the full House of Representatives impossible. It was only by knocking the top two candidates off the ballot that Jordan managed to get a majority.
So the difference I see is that Gaetz & Co. opposed the
first place guy, and the current dissenters are opposing the
third place guy.