It's an accurate summary with no glaring missing pieces. Your definition of "prime click-bait" is way off.
So, clickbait is fine, as long as we just editorialize the title? That's an unusual standard.
Are you saying the new title is clickbait? How so?
Pretty much standard for HN, there are endless mod comments explaining it. Although they make more sense if you distinguish between 'changing' and 'editorializing'.