Apparently I was too subtle so let me put a lampshade on it. The replies to the post which said that the XY problem approach is useful in product development,

Apparently I was too subtle so let me put a lampshade on it. The replies to the post which said that the XY problem approach is useful in product development, which are talking about XY reframing being a problem on stackoverflow are XY reframing the parent post. They are doing exactly what they decry. The smell of irony is apparently not as thick in the air as I thought it was.