> Just one example

That post has barely any points and comments. It’s not a good indicator of general sentiment, it’s just an indicator of people who were on HN at that time.

> Maybe you need to enable "Show Dead" or something?

I have it enabled.

> Pgs articles on HN definitely never was free of any critique in the HN comments, just like any article.

Of course. I very explicitly wrote “in general (certainly more than any other website)”. That does not mean “always”, or “never”. HN is not a hive mind, there’s never going to be 100% agreement. The general trend is what’s being discussed, and we both agree that in general the sentiment on Graham used to be higher. We’re just disagreeing (we may be able to find ourselves agreeing through tough thorough thought, though[1]) on where exactly it is now and how to interpret it.

[1]: Sorry, can’t believe there was a real organic opportunity to use that sentence, had to take it.

Indeed, no hard disagree, merely details :) Overall you're right though, general/overall tone definitely shifted hard for a bunch of individuals over the years.