Worse in what way? For keyboard use, I want text to be selectable, since I'll often use shift + arrow keys while reading.

And you still haven't explained why normal-selectable websites like HN itself are bad for keyboard users.

I use HN from Links daily, on a terminal. It's perfectly usable.

That's cheating. Terminal is in a sense the ultimate accessibility viewer, but few things work with existing terminal browsers I know of.

Makes me wonder though, if anyone tried to take a SOTA screen reader/accessibility software, and use it to re-render the page purely from the "how the screen reader sees it" perspective (obviously with selectable text)?