This reads as something obvious. Of course between choosing a simple solution and a complex over-architected solution, you would choose the simple one. The key

This reads as something obvious. Of course between choosing a simple solution and a complex over-architected solution, you would choose the simple one. The key word here is “over-architected”. The author is nitpicking academic and bureaucratic architecture design that happens at large (arguably inefficient) companies. But they evolved that way to protect themselves, probably before testing was widely understood or implemented. Regardless, it tries to make a sensationalist topic when in fact it’s trying to say “architecture is common sense” + don’t prematurely optimize. Overall not the worst article but its incendiary nature rubs me the wrong way.