Flagged as irrelevant to Hacker News' core purpose, and somewhat inflammatory to boot for those not marinating in campus culture wars all the time.
Also it's written in the least inflammatory manner I could imagine an article on the subject could be. Like, come on, be a bit more charitable.
Personally, I fail to see how the article was inflammatory. The author clearly took pains to avoid demonizing either side of the discussion that was being highlighted, something which is markedly rarer in the current day and age.
You can only read about new backend frameworks so often, this is interesting..