This didn't read to me like a proposal to simplify routing software by simply ripping out protocols, but to refactor the design of the control plane and use mor

This didn't read to me like a proposal to simplify routing software by simply ripping out protocols, but to refactor the design of the control plane and use more modern engineering processes than the writer saw at previous workplaces. If I read between the lines correctly, he wants to build a microservices-based router for the high end network operator market. The writer is a multiple RFC author, IETF protocol chair and former distinguished engineer at Juniper, i.e. they already do "work/program in this space" and "deal with the complexity", so criticism on that basis might fall a little flat.