Please make your substantive points without swipes, name-calling, or shallow-dismissals: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Your comment would be fine without that last sentence, which managed to do all three.
It's blog spam that can be summarized to something like "here is the problem, upvote to show you agree that this is a problem"
I'm not saying that this article does gratify intellectual curiosity! but the assumption in your question is mistaken.