There's probably also some sense of people trying to paint the lesson of "sometimes rookie errors aren't actually errors, and your seniors will tell you you're

There's probably also some sense of people trying to paint the lesson of "sometimes rookie errors aren't actually errors, and your seniors will tell you you're doing something wrong, when in actuality their solution is worse than what you came up with." Which I guess is saying the article's setup story makes the exact opposite point that it's trying to?