The argument makes perfect sense. Nobody can use the theoretical swiss army knife pictured in the article - it's too wide, and ridiculous. In the graphicon of

The argument makes perfect sense. Nobody can use the theoretical swiss army knife pictured in the article - it's too wide, and ridiculous. In the graphicon of over-engineering taking over users and enveloping them, pushing design out of the way, it implies that the result is hostile to users, and pushes design out of the way. But where we read this is an example of the person selecting the "knife" in question out of every single blogging platform on the planet. So, the swiss army knife pictured is inaccurate, it's a straw man. Secondly, the author clearly finds the design appropriate enough to use, and a great match for their user stories. So whereas the central thesis in the article says: > "small, elegant, and successful systems tend to be plagued with feature creep due to inflated expectations". The author is not using a "small, elegant, succcessful system". Perhaps the swiss army knife pictured is the best knife on the planet, and not one of the worst. This fundamentally undercuts the point the author is making.