Yea, I see more and more of these content farms when I'm googling various topics as well, which is actually making using the internet to learn how to do things less productive.
Your post overall was not written in that manner, but the tangent into the stairs thing was unexpected and borderline supernatural, actually would have been an interesting segue into a ghost story.
@influx post is so low effort it's hard to tell if they're the one profiting from the content farm or just posted up the first result he found on a quick google search.
Is this a ChatCPT written article to sell stuff or for SEO purposes? Definitely seems like it, and actually makes me wonder about the entire parent post.
I use HN Digest and get an email with the top 20 (the number is configurable) stories from the previous day in my email each morning. I stay relatively up to date with less distraction.