I think we are mainly silenced by the hype folks who can't not tell the rest of the internet about their excitement. I'd like to think OP's opinion is the majority, hard to tell on a startup forum where most folks are hodling TSLA.
(I think you're probably right they don't, HN international and diverse enough, but I wouldn't be astonished.)
Note that it doesn’t mean I love it; I just expect that they will figure it out.