People here love hot takes, especially if it stakes out a contrarian position as the smart one. Criticizing the big players is just too easy to do that with since it doesn’t require you to build an alternative and is often right in some aspect so you can get validation.

I would say this about most developers not just HN. It took years for me to break that mindset.

If you think that you should see what Slashdot is like these days, lol.

It's definitely not considered high status here to be positive about anything