Couldn't get past paywall, but it could be that Tim Cook is better at operations then whomever replaced him.
From a recent comment by 'dang:
> "The paywalls suck, of course, but banning NYT, WSJ, Economist, New Yorker, and all other such publications would suck worse. I realize not everyone agrees with this, but it seems the right call to me, which doesn't mean I like it any more than you do."
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:dang%20paywall&sort=byD...
If you already have a subscription to WSJ I expect that you'd be a heavy enough user that you don't need a HN link to inform you of content to check out.
The comment I quoted is from 20 days ago, and the mods tweak policies with some regularity. 'dang commented specifically on the WSJ just over two weeks ago here:
> "WSJ is an edge case, but paywalls with workarounds are ok "
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15977257
They're well aware of the situation. Yeah, paywalls are frustrating, and the mods are handling it as they deem best for HN. That's not to say it won't change in the future, of course.