But what the article doesn't really do at all is clarify why doing this replacement is a bad thing. For the vast majority of MacOS users, this will be a good thing because most of them are using iOS/iPadOS as their first point of content. Making things seamless across all these devices might be, at most, a slight inconvenience for power users but it will be an improvement for literally everyone else.
Hacker News is obviously a different demographic but no tech company is going to cater to power users. There's not enough of us for anyone to take what we say meaningfully.