"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."
Shame. It actually spawned an interesting discussion about reader mode, ASCII emails, browser rendering engines and the meeting of old and new. And I learnt things.
I believe you and yes those are upsides - but we have to moderate for how these things work in general, and in general the downside of such digressions is much greater.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html