The author is correct of course, which is why the big techs have built a way of turning junior devs into productivity. The cost of those platforms (the borgs,

The author is correct of course, which is why the big techs have built a way of turning junior devs into productivity. The cost of those platforms (the borgs, the chubbys, the map reduces) is stratospheric compared to what a startup should be focusing on. If you want to go somewhere new (as most startups do) you're not going to find a paved road to bring you there. You can ignore architecture but it won't ignore you.