The entire premise of this article seems to be that code and configuration are somehow mutually exclusive, despite decades' worth of examples to the contrary (i

The entire premise of this article seems to be that code and configuration are somehow mutually exclusive, despite decades' worth of examples to the contrary (including init/RC scripts). Just because this configuration is typically managed and "owned" by a package manager doesn't mean it's somehow not configuration (nor is this even universally true; see also: Slackware, which uses the same sort of setup but does treat the contents of /etc/rc.d/ as user-editable config files).