Oh please. It's bad hook, yes. But once we get over that, we should acknowledge that this is an extremely well-written article. It has been a long time since I've stumbled over an article on HN that was such a joy to read.
I agree it is well-written overall and should have been clearer about that; in my defense, my conclusion was simply that an editor would cut the intro.
The intro is both highly visible, and, because of how writing and thinking work, it's also the spot where you're either collecting your thoughts or trying to hook the reader.
If you don't have an editor and you're done with your first draft, try deleting your first few paragraphs. It's often a simple way to vastly improve a piece.
If the premise is nonsense how can the article be well-written?
Most applications will not change the way they work with the kernel, because they don't work with it, they hide it as well as possible under libraries and frameworks. Even so, most applications need neither io_uring, nor eBPF. Hardly a revolution.
