Agreed, this enables power users to have a richer experience, but this ALSO enables pedants/easily-offended to have a richer pedantic/defensive experience as we

Agreed, this enables power users to have a richer experience, but this ALSO enables pedants/easily-offended to have a richer pedantic/defensive experience as well. I suppose no-one is thinking about about the majority of readers (lurkers who come to read more interesting exchanges than could be found on reddit) who are caught in the middle that end up with a worse experience as a result. I trust that HN moderators will make the right decision, which is to prevent this type of access from overwhelming the nature of HN.