I don't subscribe to subscriptions, so NYT links etc... useless to me.
I block privacy-abusing domains... AlphaGoogle links etc are inaccessible.
I won't disable my adblocker... many commercial sites linked here no good to me.
No Chrome browser... many other sites here don't work.
Maybe it's crazy to expect the net to contain interesting websites that don't have wall-to-wall ads, tracking, require a subscription, or are limited to one specific browser. On the other hand, the web is an order of magnitude larger today than when I used to find such sites.
If it were up to me, each link on HN would have a 'bad ux flag' button, and account settings would have a 'hide bad ux' filter. Then I would have the choice to browse HN without sifting through bad links myself.