I don't know much about curmudgeons, but perhaps there might be a group on HN who downvote just to perform their curmudgeon act. They exploit HN's rules to stay invisible and undetected.

Well you should probably find a workplace that doesnt punish the “curmudgeons” for directly saying that.

I doubt that will become a widespread norm within this century at least.

The people are answering with copy-paste AI are the curmudgeons trying not to get fired for being “hard to work with”

The workplace of the future is just fake nice and pretty people parroting whatever their google babelfish tells them to

EVery company that comes up with a product that brings a lot of gravy turns into place where people like this flourish. They have always been there - they would ask your question to many people, get their anwers and pass the response as their own.

Nowadays their job is much easier, just two copy pastes and lunch break.