For what it's worth, I appreciate the rules. The experience is much better for me! But I don't typically submit articles, so I'm never impacted by the manual effort.

Manual curation is what makes or breaks this site, I've had several interactions with dan and he's an excellent person.

They even will try and surface good content that didn't make it to the home page with a second chance pool ymmv

In this case, I think the rule is still good. "3 Republicans" is a baity title imo. It would have been better reworded, possibly just to "California's magic mushroom bill", or not submitted if it's only about the 3 Republicans, the politics angle doesn't accomplish much.