Not merely worded but also enforced that way.

That’s not true. The moderators accept suggestions and changes titles to something other than the original time and again. It is a guideline after all, it depends on context. I have zero doubts a more descriptive title would be accepted in this instance, as long as it were accurate and not clickbait.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by%3Adang%20change%20title&sor...

I've seen many cases of useful descriptive titles being switched to uninformative ones (Stephen Hawking's thesis is one that immediately comes to mind). Every title edit that I've seen in realtime has looked like a robotic replacement with the page title. (Perhaps whatever moderators are active in my timezone are less flexible about their guidelines than dang is)