It's a different question why something is popular on hackernews or why someone should use something. Deno is interesting and worth paying attention to, that does not mean someone should be sold on it or build something with it (yet?).

But clearly people are using it. GGGP is asking why people are choosing it. It’s a very straight forward conversation and I feel like you’re nitpicking word choices.

I don’t see this as a good faith conversation. It’s one thing to ask why people are using something, another thing entirely is to get people to convince one to use it. Particularly when the post already starts with a few statements of not liking it.