Everyone with strong feelings on this feels like the mods are secretly against their side and in favor of the other side.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
The other side feels the same way that you do, just with the partisan bit flipped. For example, around the same time you posted your comment, someone else posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43142843.