From the little of what I knew about Xi, I came in with this perspective. The article changed my mind. He really was trying to "fix all the problems" as it were

From the little of what I knew about Xi, I came in with this perspective. The article changed my mind. He really was trying to "fix all the problems" as it were, it's right there in the start of the article the issue with google keyboard not talking to text boxes, it's a problem that is real. That said, in his opinion, it didn't work especially with the gui being separate from the core. I guess my point is he was trying to "correctly solve" a hard problem, which does require engineering. He didn't seem to set out to solve a dumb problem that didn't need solving (Yet Another Text Editor).