A trend I've been seeing on HN and Reddit alike are articles that are not in depth, but allow the users of the medium in which they are shared to have a reason to talk about something. This post probably got more attention because it was a dedicated link versus somebody asking HN if they think React is becoming a black box.
I'd much prefer the latter, but it seems that links are the way of websites such as these.
The quality of posts at the top of HN has really tanked over the last 2-3 years. Falling from high quality to “programmer clickbait” like the OP here. It’s a little better if you use /classic as a path, which I understand is only calculated by upvotes from users from the first couple years of HN, before the startup boom. Occasionally /news and /classic are virtually identical making me wonder if there are a lack of active OG users and the algo falls back to default during a lack of classic participation.
They'll say something and I'm wondering "what do you mean exactly..." but we don't know.
I get how folks might not want to get into the weeds on minutia or etc. But without examples it's hard not to think someone just doesn't 'get it' too.