You are spot on and it's infuriating in the opposite direction. I sub to a small local city sub reddit and people will post the same question every day instead of just doing a quick search to find that their same question has been asked 20 times this month.
For a while, I was still using reddit to go to those small niche subs, but now they are garbage too
Well said. Not to mention the article title calls out Proton but it's basically all the noteworthy e2ee email products. Very click baity