Yeah it's ridiculous. You don't have to upvote them even if you want to read the comments and discuss. Stop wasting our time sharing posts from random outside reddits too. They're purely anecdotal nonsense wasting everyone's time. We've got enough similar posts here.
It increases the visibility for this critical problem. Too many people are still unaware of the situation. Hopefully it will bring more people off Google.
Or incentivize the creation of real competition - i.e. don't ignore valid pain points, especially when aggregrated