Indeed. One of the reasons that I, for one, tend to be very critical of that sort of advocacy is that one day someone less wary will read it, and they will thin

Indeed. One of the reasons that I, for one, tend to be very critical of that sort of advocacy is that one day someone less wary will read it, and they will think it is good advice because it looks convincing and comes from someone with a reputation in the industry, and then they might become the next junior developer I have to mentor or the next ex-senior-developer whose code I have to fix before I can get on with doing some real work. It's happened before, and no doubt it will happen again.