Totally agree. I was not pitching for large audience, the dryness creates a specific exclusivity in itself. HN subculture is focused on conrete subjects with world class subject experts occasionally pitching in.

Tons of things wrong with closed subcultures. Do we only want to hear from TechBros about the latest fad, currently how awesome LLMs are, with no dissenting opinion to provide any sort of debate? I, for one, welcome our large audience, because this place has more posts than Slashdot, has wireless, and isn't lame(most of the time).

This would be bad if these closed subcultures were the only cultures to exist.

But that would be a self-contradiction, by the virtue of being closed, there are people who are not part of them, so they cannot be the only culture.