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> If many people believe this is the case, why not? All articles get some common types of responses based on the topic, this is just one topic/response combo that you happen to disagree with.

Because such comments tend to be repeats, making them not interesting. They also tend to derail interesting discussion. When there's an article on an interesting detail about X, but the top comment litigates why X should even exist, the interesting part of the article never gets discussed. And when that happens on all threads that involve any aspect of X, it's boring.