Because it's almost guaranteed to be a lie and they refuse to provide basic information that would clear it up.

there is a mob mentality on HN where a certain group of people go burying dissenting opinion, because they can just downvote without posting a thoughtful response.

The insult about "worthwhile" research is a bit more negative than is usually tolerated on HN plus it is completely inaccurate as there has been zero assessment of worthwhile or not in these cuts.

True. As you can see I have been downvotted just for asking that question

Because most people have gotten sick of steelmanning the deliberate destruction of our country.

My own cutoff was June 2020. I figured Trump had to come around to accepting reality and leading by then. At the very least it would have made for a shoe-in second term. But nope! He really is that {retarded, xitter-addicted, foreign-controlled}.