> Trying to put this in the nicest way, the HN mods come across as autistic and emotionally detached

The nicest way? :)

Assumptions that work at one scale stop working at the next, which is one reason this stuff is hard. You're making assumptions about "regular persons" and what's "very easy" that aren't true of the HN community as a whole. We couldn't enforce those by decree even if we wanted to.