Thank you for introducing me to the word thither.

It got many comments quickly and I guess the HN anti flame ware algorithm deprioritised the post.

A few reasons, including that it set off the flamewar detector a.k.a. overheated discussion detector; and we downweighted it because there have been countless yet-another-layoffs-story posts recently, so the bar for interestingness has to be higher. See https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... on the latter point. Also https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....