Yep, still, this happens once, twice, thrice a week, if we multiply these for (say) x1000 (to take into account those that do not land on HN), that is 3,000 cas

Yep, still, this happens once, twice, thrice a week, if we multiply these for (say) x1000 (to take into account those that do not land on HN), that is 3,000 cases (most of them extremely simple to solve, actually no-brainers) per week. Assuming that these kind of issues can be solved in next-to-no-time by any employee (i.e. there is no need to have top notch programmers and engineers to solve them) and that any employee can solve 20 (probably many more) of these little problems per day, all that would be needed is 30 people + maybe a coordinator. 30x60,000 US$/year + 1x150,000 + 50,000 other expenses = 2,000,000 US$/year, a lot of money but you need to put it into perspective. So it revolves around - as always - greed Google/Alphabet had a net income of $6.8 billion in 1st quarter 2020: https://venturebeat.com/2020/04/28/alphabet-earnings-q1-2020/ https://venturebeat.com/2020/04/28/alphabet-earnings-q1-2020... So, with as little as 2/6800=0.03% of their net income they could solve these little issues and have not this public bad naming, so this "we won't fix it" attitude cannot but be a voluntary choice.