There just need to be enough watchdogs.
A very simple solution would be that titles can be flagged by the community. Example below:
submission X by kdzsb 22 minutes ago | flag title | flag discussion | 9 comments
That's up to the admins to decide what needs more often to be managed, the submission or the discussion. Or it could be named:
flag title | flag submission/discussion
Wikipedia has enormous meta community, and it's likely that such a huge amount of meta is toxic.
There just need to be enough watchdogs.
A very simple solution would be that titles can be flagged by the community. Example below:
Moderators would simply edit flagged bad titles. Rather than having them to watch all titles (old rules) or no titles at all (new rules).