“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”

I got to say, HN has become much looser with the titles since dang took over. It could be for the better (or not), but I definitely see at least 5 top posts a week with an editorialized title now, compared to a lot less before.

Edit: Everyone is saying it is fine. Again I'm not saying it is not, but if it is, can you please update this part of the guidelines:

>Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait. Don't editorialize.

When you see them, let the mods know via the Contact link in the footer. They don't see everything and update the ones they know about.

It's very often the mods who editorialize (often you can see some reasoning in the comments), so it is definitely not an issue of them not knowing, rather a change of policy.