Yep. What this article skips over is maintainability in all of the things it discusses, and in most cases also flexibility. The optimization it praises only ha

Yep. What this article skips over is maintainability in all of the things it discusses, and in most cases also flexibility. The optimization it praises only has single focus (operational efficiency), whereas if you take into account all of the aspects of the things in question, suddenly you see that the way things are are usually a solid compromise between the aspects it's really optimizing for. That includes human interactions such as analysis, repair, modification, and so on.