Yes, fair cop, I shortened your title - because frankly as this very topic illustrates, such long titles are unwieldy, they don’t format very well, …
The title does not have to contain the entirety of your point. The title should summarize your post in half a dozen words. It really shouldn’t be that hard.
I think it is unhelpful to the community that in a topic complaining about shortening of titles you should choose to use such a long title.
It is possible that the forum software (Discourse) will let you lengthen your title again but, again, that would be unhelpful to the community.
Nevertheless it is valid “site feedback” to complain about shortening of titles. I will leave Purism to respond to the general issue.
That choice is nothing to do with me - but the Round Table category is not openly visible to the web. It is only visible to people who have created an account on this forum and logged in. That’s what the lock indicates.
I believe the idea is that it can encompass more frank, more controversial, … discussion but of course in reality since anyone can create an account, the discussion is still really visible to anyone in the world.
It is possible that the content in the Round Table category wouldn’t get indexed by web crawlers (search engines).