Indeed. GP's original post - ironically prefaced with "Before you make too many assumptions" - implied the reasoning was something entirely unrelated to what it actually was about.
HN rules are that I should assume you read the article.
Technically there's nothing saying that in the guidelines.
I suspect it was meant tongue in cheek, I had a good chuckle with it when I read it.
I did read the article. I'm just pointing out the likely reason that all these comments seem to be talking past one another.
The quote you chose doesn't seem to reinforce the point you are making.