The rules of the forum you're reading this on literally say that workarounds are fine for paid content.

Isn't copying a page and making it available to others copyright infringement unless given permission by the copyright holders?

Where in the guidelines is that ok?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 the topic of paywalled content and the ethos of it is viewed as off topic as a general rule.

The real problem is that HN doesn't annotate paywalled sites. 1/3 of the links I click I can't access. If I could filter by non-paywalled links I would agree with you

On some websites I can access the content with “reader view”. Didn’t work for this site though

I think temporarily disabling JavaScript works in more cases.

If the article had more journalism and less interview-bites from conference workers and maybe more then a generic overview, I'd agree with you.

As it is, IMO this article seems like more filler, than anything else.