TFA can also stand for The Fine Article.
By HN rules you should assume the best; in this case for you, he was talking about the fine article.
I wasnt aware "TFA" could be interpreted with a negative connotation, although that seems obvious in retrospect. Just trying to participate in the HN community, and also because its less typing : )
As a matter of writing style, repeating acronyms are invisible to the reader, whereas repeating words are annoying and remove value. This may be an opinion I gained from my military service, which was acronym-heavy.
I appreciate the question and its perspective.