I figured HN would be a suitable venue to get technical feedback from a broad audience because the communities I spend the most time in are skewed towards peopl

I figured HN would be a suitable venue to get technical feedback from a broad audience because the communities I spend the most time in are skewed towards people who use React heavily, and HN felt like a "fairer" sample of devs including both ones who use React and ones who might have tried React and then abandoned it. I'm not actually sure where you think a post would be more effective. The ~100 points this post has are also not from people who work on React (seeing as there's less than 10 of us). This indicates to me that people here do find this post interesting. The post you linked also have dozens of comments from people explaining ways it is inaccurate. It's probably those people who flagged it, not us. (This is my first time seeing that post.) I don't think we're tricking anyone into using React and I think we're always honest about who we are, but I'm sorry that our comments have come off as "shilling" and "astroturfing" to you. It's not why we're here.