In great detail, over the better part of a decade, yes. You can find some of the rationale here and a few more searches will dig up more discussions about it than even an olympic-level messageboard-hardened person could possibly bear

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

the HN guidelines often lead to some stupid titles, but i think this is one of those times that show why the guidelines are good. The original headline accurately represents the content of the article. the edited version is an incomprehensible mess.