Human nature reacts to the environment. Change the environment (by reducing clickbait prevalence), and the observed behavior will change. Your last point hits

Human nature reacts to the environment. Change the environment (by reducing clickbait prevalence), and the observed behavior will change. Your last point hits the nail on the head. Changing core aspects of human nature is not really feasible, so we have to to modify the environment or context in some way to better accommodate those aspects of human nature.