It's not just technical decisions... the entire site is a single web-page with zero content except for trying to harvest emails. I mean, if you want people to spam such low quality stuff on HN, then I guess that's your prerogative. But I usually enjoy the much higher quality stuff that people post here on HN and I'd hate for the bar to drop this low.

Yes. It's completely overblown. To me, that demonstrates that the person behind this is either a) ignorant of the fundamentals or b) just riding the hype wave to attract the naive.

There is of course option c). That would be that taking a contrarian view on the technology will provide a strategic advantage to a business. But I don't see how that would apply here.