Not for me, I can't see the triangles. I normally would see a triangle next to your comment so I could up-vote (I never had down-vote). Something changed and I don't have up-vote anymore :) And that's both for comments and submissions.
If I want to read general news there are plenty of feeds for that. I think some great articles covering non-tech topics deserve to be on the front page, but stuff like you posted does not seem that remarkable.
also note that this is a very US centric view, I'm living in Europe and I have not heard much about this trial, nor am I extremely interested day-to-day politics in the US.
Again plenty of great places to read and talk about north American politics, HN is more than that.
I feel like the field you are getting into (workspace productivity/office collab) us extremely competitive and there are many huge players. Most people don't use this stuff outside of work and there it is usually mandated by forces outside of our control.
That being said if you can stay alive long enough and listen to users it could work, I have tried it but looks neat.
The DMV here in CA really improved their online offerings due to covid. Now you can do almost anything that previously would have required waiting in line. It's ridiculous that it took this long.
Email is just so much better than waiting in line. It takes them 2-3 days to respond, but there is a ticketing system and it just works.
In an ideal world this would be a great solution, but on earth I think this would invite a whole host of corruption, similar to the carbon offset trading. Not combating the problem but making everyone richer.