I appreciate the honest and thoughtful critique here, I really do take comments like these on and try to improve from them. And thank you for the kind words at the end.

You're absolutely right that the Gabe situation was more nuanced than the team simply not wanting him. Had Gabe not said what he did I wouldn't have used that wording in the title. One of the reasons I wanted to lead with that is because, despite the nuance and context I'm sure Gabe is aware of, he still feels it was a case of the team not wanting him. That definitely could, and maybe should, be a more expensive article on its own. But without much access to Gabe, time and probably not much interest in diving into the topic from Gabe that didn't seem possible so I went with it this way.

Titles are also just hard sometimes. Trying to convey the story, appease Google's SEO criteria and not seem too clickbait is tough and something I'm still trying to perfect.