Just for my own understanding. .. if an article is interesting, but title is click bait, is it really considered better to make up my own title vs. use the author's title? I could see arguments both ways.
Sidestepping your title authenticity question a bit: the risk of going with the clickbait headline is that you simply won't get any substantive comments because a critical mass will skip the posting -- that may have happened here (4h in and nothing yet). Meanwhile there is a third option: find another outlet that covered the topic is a less clickbaity fashion.