I'm sorry but I have to disagree - I think that's quite a stretch, and an example of how small-specific topics tend to get sucked into the gravity field of big-generic ones, leading to less interesting discussion (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

Not only that but the less-interesting discussion usually turns more-indignant, which makes sense once the discussion abandons the actual content of an article (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).