>Why disparage a useful feature by saying people should just settle for an inconvenient solution and search pages of HN titles?

The reason being that I'm against oversimplification and I believe it dumbs the community down. The beauty of HN for me is how primitive and free from clutter it is so that I can focus on the content.

>This is a news site. Why would you expect the people arriving to already know the news they came to learn?

I'm not, you can simply find the answer by going through the first few pages, I just don't believe an effort needs to be made to make it easier than that.