Normally your post would have been flagged for Moderation Discussion, but in the interests of responding, it’s staying up for transparency.
This thread will always come up to Latest or New views just like any other post unless the reader Muted this Category (which hardly any do). There is a mistaken belief that somehow General Discussion is a Uber visible category. All categories will appear in Latest or New unless the reader takes specific steps to suppress them.
Search will also return this post regardless of category unless the reader specifies “in:” parameters to only look at a specific category. Again, hardly anyone does or even knows the commands unless they look up how to for this specific board software.
So there is no deliberate attempt or accidental effect to make this post suppressed or less noticeable. Thanks!