The other side of this is worth considering: I'm no 10x developer, but I've recently been the only developer with some experience working with a team of others

The other side of this is worth considering: I'm no 10x developer, but I've recently been the only developer with some experience working with a team of others with none (interns.) Simple things that most with more experience would take for granted, like version control, must be explained at length to a beginner. Do this enough times and it's easy to skip explaining things, prompting such articles from them. Sometimes, before you can realise the factual superiority of a process/technique, you need to trust someone else's opinion on it. It is only later that you can understand why. This makes sense to me, because this is how I learnt when I was starting out.