VCV Rack has been featured a lot of times on HN (https://hn.algolia.com/?q=vcv+rack), and judging by the "2" in the submission title, I think OP wanted to highlight the new version that was just released, hence appropriate to link to the release logs instead.

> I don't understand the impulse on HN to make everything as technical as possible.

Well, it is called "Hacker News" and hackers tend to be technical, kind of makes sense.