Fully agreed. It's also that the interesting stuff quickly falls off the front page, and you have to go to https://news.ycombinator.com/active to find it.

It's interesting the dynamic here of people that like /active more. I remember someone strongly argue that the frontpage is all censorship and /active should replace the frontpage. I wholeheartedly disagree and find lower quality but clickbaity stuff stays longer on /active and has low quality discussion.

Unrelated but I've noticed a surprising number of submissions with 100+ comments that have zero or very few good comments, recently.