And yet, of all those who downvoted, not one took the time to actually provide that valid answer.

It would seem that they took the question as a rhetorical normative claim, for which downvotes are an appropriate response.

LW needs a blog or something to list recent updates and give heads-ups about these kinds of things. Reddit does that, and it works well. This post neither belongs in the new/promoted feed, nor in the meta-thread (despite what I appeared to suggest in my original comment) - the former is inelegant and the latter impractical.

That would be a nice feature to have if it was suitably unobtrusive. But given how frequent such updates would be I don't mind them appearing as posts.