Yeah, often enough it feels like there a lack of imagination, as well as a lack of appreciation for the history of progress (i.e., it's not linear, it's littered with it-can't be dones that get done, etc.) Most everything here is literal, to a fault. Also there's quite a bit of band wagon jumping. That is, there'll be an initial nearly pointless comment and the conversation takes off from there (nearly void of addressing the original article).

Finally, mention any of this and you get a lesson from HN down vote gang bangers. Sometime I feel like the only free-thinking adult in the room.