No, it's not. There are a lot more thoughtful comments and some questioning the headline for its clickbait.

I agree there are a lot more low quality comments, though. It depends on the article.

Agreed. The quality of comments has really declined.

I've been saying this for the past year or so.

Something happened during the pandemic where too many normies got hired into tech and then started larping around here.

The quality of comments here is now just emotional mainstream nonsense, compared to the annoyingly autistic (but often intelligent) analysis that used to be commonplace.

Increasingly so :(.

It's gotten almost unbearable in the last couple years. The amount of hate, cynicism, bitterness, etc. towards almost everything (currently AI, capitalism, anyone successful, etc) is just ridiculous. It's sad, I've been a heavy user for almost twenty years now, and I find it borderline intolerable most days.