On my android phone's home screen, there is a "discover" page if you move the view towards the left that opens up a news feed. It is easy to accidentally swipe onto it and I find it kind of annoying. One of my friends asked me how to get rid of it. It took me something like an hour to figure out how to turn off the "discover" feed. I learned that they have moved the toggle in a past version.

Yesterday, I accidentally scrolled onto my discover page and saw that google has added a new distinct information section to it. I don't feel like having these headlines clamouring for my attention whenever I scroll. Now I will have to learn how to turn that off.

These "auto-opt in" features have a psychological attrition effect on the user as the toggle moves, and people's time and attention is distracted elsewhere, and also by the features themselves as they are added and cannot be customized. You should update your model of this comment section's subject matter to account for this fact.

One that you have to find, and that your administrator might disable.

If they want to offer it as an opt-in, fine, but this is intrusive.

Which you’ll be censured for disabling if you use words that would otherwise be called out as “non-inclusive”.