Article tl;dr: Design is hard and can't be boiled down into applying pithy mindlessly. For what it's worth, I agree with your points and disagree with the vari

Article tl;dr: Design is hard and can't be boiled down into applying pithy mindlessly. For what it's worth, I agree with your points and disagree with the various counterpoints that were posted; "optimization" can mean a lot of things, and I for one understand what you mean.