All of these issues could be solved well by a decent library. Or even just basic well thought out abstractions. I've written a few before from "scratch" myself

All of these issues could be solved well by a decent library. Or even just basic well thought out abstractions. I've written a few before from "scratch" myself to decent success. I don't think there's anything inherent with sockets that make it impossible to use well. I mean, we've been using sockets since the beginning of the internet. You can write the same article for literally any technology that's complicated to use without abstractions.