You’re right. I did expect that folks would intuit “Nice Thing Happened” as a place to celebrate “Nice Thing.” That was wrong of me.
I myself laid out those expectations after the first round of comments denigrating the achievement. I did so first with some dry humor about no one attacking past finalists, an attempt at humor which you immediately attacked as tone policing, before considering maybe my intentions were just to josh folks into thinking “wow these are maybe hurtful remarks to read on an announcement thread about a good thing that happened.”
In fact I don’t think anyone here has ever policed tone. After that, I straight up have said, as have mods, as have Abby and Jason: this isn’t the place to criticize the game. Not “criticize it nicely.” Not “I don’t like the tone of the comments here” just: no.