Actually as acquisitions go this was a pretty good one. Much better than Yahoo's acquisition of Delicious, which basically destroyed it. Reddit continued to grow after the acquisition. Steve and Alexis worked for CN for several years, and as far as I know there was no bad blood when they left. Maybe CN could be making more money from it (I have no idea how much they do make), but I think they've learned a lot about how "social media" works, and it always seemed that was their main goal.
If you boil this article down to the actual facts reported in it, it's nothing more than: The founders of a startup bought by a big company eventually quit. But that's the norm with acquisitions. It's ridiculous (or more precisely, linkbait) to call it a "divorce."
Linkbait is accurate. Your article's title and introduction imply drama which by all accounts is non-existent. Reducing to the more accurate title you've suggested above reveals this to be what it is: a non-story.
However, I had never heard about the Google offer. That's pretty cool.
Either you learned nothing and so it's a non-story. Or you learning something and so it's a story. Which is it?
I found enough interesting details (including the acquisition price which I hadn't seen elsewhere) to make it a linkable story. Seems like a few folks agree. And I simply don't get this meta-complaining, especially since:
Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.
Editors could have also changed the title here. Why have votes, flags, and even editorial control if you're just going to clutter the comments with meta-complaints?
If you boil this article down to the actual facts reported in it, it's nothing more than: The founders of a startup bought by a big company eventually quit. But that's the norm with acquisitions. It's ridiculous (or more precisely, linkbait) to call it a "divorce."