I would concur with your critique. There are vast swathes of counter-examples to the article, to the point where I don't think that, given the business framing

I would concur with your critique. There are vast swathes of counter-examples to the article, to the point where I don't think that, given the business framing of the OP, the article actually holds water outside of "some people glue useless things on and it's a pain to deal with", which is sort of... known already?