Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
The described behavior sounds like significantly worse than tangential annoyance, and isn’t really a common occurrence even on modern user-hostile websites.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Because way more people have opinions about e.g. asteroid game scripts on web pages than have opinions on RCUs, these subthreads spread like kudzu.