[addicted]

No, it doesn’t.

Unless you assume that only a certain group of people can put out quality articles.

Which based simply on HN articles is obviously not true (even though some people may continue thinking it is due to their preconceived biases, based on how HN comments in articles written by women will invariably have multiple people refer to the author with male pronouns).

[AdrianB1]

Read again the paragraph with the title "What could Dev.to do better?". It is exactly that: no downvotes or flagging of low quality content in the name of inclusivity.