YC Is CRISPR for Startups
blog.ycombinator.com
blog.ycombinator.com
They are growing, and with an increase in size they have to have significant dissonance within the team - it's only natural.
Maybe a few of the older guns at YC still like to think that they continue to be the place where a hypothesis is evaluated purely for its potential but its not - which is sad because the world now desperately needs what YC once was.
Edit - Shameless plug of a blog post I wrote about a very similar topic yesterday https://www.fueet.com/ants.html