The Decline of Y-Combinator? Or Bad Luck?

In asking about repeated chains of this in Javascript, I was inquiring about program design and coding style, about the way we attach functionality to the right computational objects.

For better or worse, some people figured that I was attacking the design of Javascript. Many thousands of hit later, I'm not any wiser than I was before. It’s interesting to see that, at Y-Combinator and Hacker News, the commenters

• generally assume that their audience and interlocutors are novices who know almost nothing about programming.
• frequently claim that, because something is popular in some language they happen to know – Python, Lua – then the same idiom is ideal for every other language they use.

Of 20+ comments at Y-Combinator, either 0 or 1 appears to have understood the question. It’s not a very hard question; I'd thought better of Y-Cominator but perhaps it’s going the way of slashdot.