[TimeBearingDown]

Performative?

It’s a simple trade-off. Some prefer to be frustrated in different ways.

[candiddevmike]

Plenty of people do that without blogging about it for HN upvotes.

[wpietri]

Yes, and it's those people we might best learn from. But that's hard to do, because they're the ones not writing about what they're doing. Possibly because they don't want their sincere views reflexively dismissed for being about the upvotes.