Having spent several years in the running-JVMs-in-production trenches I would claim the opposite.
> I'm sure there are old-hands who have deployed JVM apps at scale might be unsurprised and unimpressed, but I was surprised.
I've never done anything nontrivial with the JVM, so I'm totally willing to believe I was surprised because of my JVM ignorance, but I've never had to fiddle with my language VMs.
Regardless, I argue there's room for tasteful showmanship without it being clickbait.
Clickbait is trying to bait you into clicking. This definitely falls under that. Is it the worst case of clickbait I've seen? No. But it is definitely clickbait.
The most beneficial title from the reader's perspective is a title which allows the reader to quickly decide whether they need to know the information and informs the reader with the necessary information as efficiently as possible. Hence the now long dead practice of writing in the form of an inverted pyramid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)).
Do you feel this article did something wrong? Because from what I'm hearing it seems like you're saying it wasn't to your taste, which is entirely valid but a different matter.
I don't like click bait. I voiced that opinion. That's all.
I think showmanship is okay if it's tasteful. The problem with clickbait is that it's manipulative and tacky and dishonest. After you read the article you feel like you've been had.