Analysis pieces are no less on-topic and often mat least as appropriate for HN than bare news pieces, and I don't think that, obnoxious headline aside, that is untrue of the content here.

But if you think it's inappropriate you can and should flag it and move on, rather than making ludicrous complaints about it being a sign of a trend of outlets making it hard to find straight news when the same outlet that published the column also carried a straight news piece on the same event.