Maybe, but you can say that about most politicized questions, so from a practical moderation point of view in the short term, it doesn't change the outcome.
Sorry, I've lost the thread here. The Apple/EU/appstore story is on topic for HN and I don't think there have been tons of duplicates on the front page.
Taking a thread into an offtopic flamewar tangent about DEI is, from my perspective, a different question altogether.