[customguy]

> We've created little prisons for ourselves and locked the door.

Yes, but that kind of ignores the more active elements. This story didn't languish with few upvotes and a few shallow comments, it was an instant HN darling so had to be killed, or it would still be on the front page.

[0] https://hnrankings.info/48323101/

And whatever the reasons or rationalizations for that may be, you can be 100% sure it was by a tiny minority.