Because it's linkbait. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

(The article itself strikes me as better than that)

Yeah, that was weird. The current title editorializes. @dang can you revert to actual title please?

Because if mods feels like a title is flamebaiting it will get changed. It rarely makes much sense.