I find it utterly hilarious that people @ news.yc complain to no end that the site has non-"hacker" stuff. Then when an interesting open source project is released they complain that it doesn't have such and such a feature that they need. So are they hackers or not? What gives?
While I agree with your sentiment, it is possible that the subset of people who complain about 'non hacker' stuff on news.yc doesn't intersect with the subset of people who complain about some feature that Arc lacks....