Since you ask, personal opinion only ... Articles without links have a penalty applied. This site is about finding cool stuff, not about musing over the site

Since you ask, personal opinion only ... Articles without links have a penalty applied. This site is about finding cool stuff, not about musing over the site itself. If it isn't a link to somewhere else then it's less likely (although not certain) to fall strictly in line with the site's original intent. Yes, it's a valid point to raise, but a better way to raise it would be to write a proper article, discussing the issue, proposing possible solutions, weighing their merits, then making specific suggestions, and finally, submitting a link to the item to wrote. This is much to be preferred over just complaining.