Was expecting something a bit more profound.
What did people find interesting about this to upvote it to the front page?
It seems only relevant to this persons friends / former colleagues from ~4 years ago.
"Turning into Reddit" also includes anything about quality generally decreasing over time. I have been on HN for more than 6 years on this account and another year or two longer on my previous account and while there's certainly an ebb and flow to the overall quality and the focus definitely changes, HN is not any drastically better or worse than it was half a decade ago.
That's not on the page you linked - is that your own interpretation of a one-liner?
Again, not saying that was the author’s intent, but it’s how it came off.
Sometimes you need to spell out "hey, these are my personal opinions, not anyone else's - and if you want to know what I meant in a particular post, just ask me for clarification".