I'm the author of the post, and you're absolutely right. They still lose because there are deeper forces at play, and I think about "Price's Law" much. It state

I'm the author of the post, and you're absolutely right. They still lose because there are deeper forces at play, and I think about "Price's Law" much. It states that 50% of the output depends on the squareroot of the people. This is a force that creates limits in different opportunities. The example that I use is "how many networking protocols does a company need?" At most, maybe, two. So, you get a limit of the number of people that understand protocols well. This is a funny thing about university too in that you get a lot of exposure, but those ideas just kind of feed you a bit rather than something that you can use in a career. How many people are actually going to use their OS, DB, etc in real-life? Well, at full scale, not many.