[hn_throwaway_99]

What you call a "rhetorical device" I call clickbait, and frankly I'm getting tired of it.

If the response to every title should be "You shouldn't judge us on the title, everyone knows titles are bullshit", then maybe folks should stop making bullshit titles, or else not feign innocence when they are judged on them.

(Note I understand the submitted title is not the title of the article, which I think is a valid defense in this instance, but my general point still stands)

[xapata]

There's a difference between using a broadly true generalization as the title and using a bullshit statement as the title.