If you can’t read the title in the OP and immediately understand what it means, that says more about your reading comprehension than it does about how much I like clarity.
I agree your title is better – just that the original commenter is being needlessly pedantic instead of meaningfully discussing the article’s subject.
“Two found dead in flooded basements”
Both more concise and more clear. Since you seem to dislike both pedantry and clarity.
Apparently we’re only permitted to meaningfully discuss this shit.
If you can’t read the title in the OP and immediately understand what it means, that says more about your reading comprehension than it does about how much I like clarity.
I agree your title is better – just that the original commenter is being needlessly pedantic instead of meaningfully discussing the article’s subject.