If this were Gawker (RIP), Buzzfeed, Upworthy, or another content farm, then yes, you'd have a point. This is ACM Queue, though. Here's some other works you might never have read, based on their titles.

- Go To Statement Considered Harmful <https://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/teaching/reader/Dijkstra68.p...>

- Why Johnny Can't Encrypt: A Usability Evaluation of PGP 5.0 <https://web.archive.org/web/20140712002547/http://www.gaudio...>

- Remembrance of Data Passed <http://simson.net/clips/academic/2003.IEEE.DiskDriveForensic...>

- Reflections on Trusting Trust <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=358198.358210>

- No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering <https://doi.org/10.1109%2FMC.1987.1663532>

- The Emperor's Old Clothes <https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/358549.358561>

- The next 700 programming languages. <https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Landin66.pdf>

- Attention Is All You Need <https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762>

As a matter of opinion, there are far more worthy reads in programming and computer science with "clickbait" titles than with more staid academic titles. There are untold numbers of forgettable works with forgettable titles.