The trouble is that 1) bad headlines that ask a question rather than provide information are so normalized that they appear everywhere now, so lots of titles a

The trouble is that 1) bad headlines that ask a question rather than provide information are so normalized that they appear everywhere now, so lots of titles are like that, 2) Auto-removing “how” addresses only some of those, and rarely well, and 3) When it doesn’t just fail to fix the problem but also mangles the headline, it generates discussion like this one we’re having now, and I think there’s a strong argument to be made that this is worse than letting the headline start with “how”. And yeah, submitters may be able to fix the headline when submitting the link. The problem is they in-fact do not, pretty often.