"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."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Yeah, sorry. That was probably my last comment on this trend, since I think I've said all I have to say. However, I do think "too common" implicitly narrows the definition of "tangential annoyances" - I believe this is a new phenomenon (though I understand the spirit of the rule is to not have comment threads about things other than the content of the submission).