It feels to me like YC's name-drop doesn't have a purpose beyond just attention/view grabbing, despite there being a few nuggets of solid reasoning sprinkled throughout the post.

> That’s 1.25%. To be fair, that’s actually quite impressive, but let’s say you have the stamina and willpower to go through YC three times in your lifetime. You’d need approximately 26 lifetimes to hit the jackpot!

This isn't the least bit unique to YC, it's just the cold reality of any high-growth startup.

If OP had framed this as "Moonshot Startup vs Lifestyle Business" it would have felt more like a good faith argument. Even "Do you have the risk tolerance to be a founder" would have worked. But basing a thread titled "Why you shouldn't apply to YC" off an illformed assumption of the readers risk tolerance is naive at best (and likely malicious given OP is selling competing services).