Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming. It’s Time for That to Change

Here is an article from 2018 written by Jay Hanlon that discusses how they are trying to change to make SOF more inclusive:

And here is some discussion about it on SOF that you should only read if you are ready to be disappointed:

Whereas the article feels pretty encouraging to me, as I see someone honestly trying to understand and figure out how to solve the problem, the user discussion has the opposite effect.

What is particularly disheartening for me is how bad the reasoning is - the question that opens the discussion already starts by quoting the article wrong and many comments and answers are no better.