This has nothing to do with your views; I don't have any idea what they are and haven't read the context in this thread. I just saw this comment because it was flagged, and I recognize that this happens a lot with your account. That's not cool and not what this site is for.
See for example discussion at https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/48890
I edit-deleted the comment in protest of how the community has decided to treat minority opinions, I did not mean to start a flame war.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
p.s. Bookface is a private forum, so a link to it doesn't make much sense in a public place like HN.
That is not to say that this is _always_ the way things are, of course, because everybody is not the same. But that goes both ways: like you say, there are tons of people who "get" newer concerns likes the ones you mentioned.
For many things, keeping up-to-date and at least having some opinion is what's important to align with some subset of the companies out there. Otherwise you have no culture to even fit to and align with nobody.
Also I wasn't trying to be passive aggressive, I think it's worth leaving a trail of instances of when "agree with the masses or shut up" happen on HN.
>I think it's worth leaving a trail of instances of when "conform with the masses or shut up" happen on HN.
without context, that trail doesn't lend much weight. That's what makes the sentiment feel passive aggressive. "deleting evidence" so to speak, gives the implication that the comment in question wouldn't be a universally agreeable one to begin with, even outside of the hivemind.