I agree with your "no unique perspective" point, but I don't think that's, well, the point. I would rather have a discussion about nearly any topic on HN than in most/all other places. I think the quality of discussion here is generally much higher than most/all other places.
Your reference to X/Twitter is in a way the point for me: I never really enjoyed Twitter when it was Twitter, and since the Musk acquisition I actively avoid it like the plague (I've deleted the app off my phone, and have signed out on the web to raise the barrier for me). I don't want to have conversations there, ever, really. I don't agree that resulting HN discussion on a topic like this would be indistinguishable from a discussion on X; I still believe the quality here will be higher.
I do agree that HN isn't for every single topic under the sun. But I hope we can both agree that there's no absolute arbiter of what should and shouldn't be here. It's ultimately a matter of subjective opinion, and even the people who run the site aren't going to be absolutist about it in most cases. I think in general there's a decent balance struck: while an article like this might not be completely on topic for HN, it's not completely off topic either, as long as articles about this topic don't dominate the front page, and we mostly only see articles with new information, and not just re-hashes of stuff that's already been reported on (and discussed here) for days/weeks/months.