It doesn’t read like shaming to me. It’s, in the grand scheme of HN comments, definitely on the more constructive side of the criticism. Maybe it could have been reworded, but I think the author of the post could very easily find it actionable in the future. I too had to stop reading the article at that point, so I think if the author wants more people to read, my advice for them is to just write like themselves. We’ve entered the start of a new Instagram filter age where many people feel they need to have LLMs reword their writing presumably for the same reasons as the original filter age. I share OC’s sentiment of pushing against the recent trend of implicitly shaming people for their individualistic writing styles.