I think the point was more: the OP clearly has an opinion here, but it's not written and those of us who know zilch about the Amazon affiliate market aren't able to intuit it.
Spell it out, basically. What are we looking at and why do we care?
I suppose you are right about that. Personally I think the title implies:
- Lower prices on electronics for consumers.
- Loss of profits for people relying on income from affiliate program on electronics.
And furthermore I think both of these kinds of people are found in large quantities among the HN crowd relative to the population at large.
But I might be mistaken in my understanding so in that sense I think you are right that an article that explained what was meant would make sense.
Perhaps OP felt that doing so would only get them labeled as submitting blogspam? Or perhaps OP is not comfortable with writing? Or perhaps OP wanted to share this quickly without having to put a lot of effort into it. Only OP knows the reason probably.
I think perhaps it'd been better if OP submitted a text-post with an explanation, or at least wrote a comment about the change ITT.
Spell it out, basically. What are we looking at and why do we care?