I agree with you and the TFA. I also think that naming the book "Design Patterns" and calling the techniques "Patterns" is unfortunate and misleading. But I th

I agree with you and the TFA. I also think that naming the book "Design Patterns" and calling the techniques "Patterns" is unfortunate and misleading. But I think calling them like that is what made the book as famous and as is it. If the book were called "OOP Programming Techniques" it wouldn't have the same popularity. Of course that doesn't make it right. As a book it has served its purpose at the time, but by portraying what are basically "band aids" to limited programming languages (Norvig 1996) as foundational CS knowledge, it ossified the development of OOP and CS itself by a few years IMO.