HN certainly has taken this seriously, which IMHO is disappointing.

1300+ comments on something that has hardly anything to do with technology. Really?

To me, this is a dumb and actually kind of funny list, due to some ridiculous notions (e.g. "stand up meeting" is ablelist?) that seem poorly put together with zero thought for context. It's as if someone got an assignment to put this together and tried to really, really stretch any possible connection they could into this. Like you said, a "bullshit time-consuming initiative".

That's all it is. I don't get why people are paying attention to it. It's not worth much thought at all.