I had the same response w.r.t "telling me what I want to hear". After thinking about it there is an interesting notion in there. If you consider how the author

I had the same response w.r.t "telling me what I want to hear". After thinking about it there is an interesting notion in there. If you consider how the author may benefit from writing such a piece (as opposed to any other piece which would have resulted in him receiving the same payment). If we assume that hypothetically he is simply writing what developers like to hear, then it is likely that he is trying to curry favour with either a specific developer or developers in general. If he was trying to do that then it implies he sincerely believes what he wrote and therefore wasn't just writing what people might want to hear. Admittedly it does fall apart if it transpires if his motives were 100% financial, however I found the concept of a self-negating idea to be an interesting one.