You are arguing with something that was not said. Neither the original article nor the person you are replying to said that sales wasn't needed. Indeed, the pe

You are arguing with something that was not said. Neither the original article nor the person you are replying to said that sales wasn't needed. Indeed, the person you're replying to explicitly said the opposite. The actual complaint is that they shifted their target audience from engineers to something much broader and fuzzier. The complaint is not that they have salespeople, which they needed in either case. It's that the lack of clarity in who they're selling to and why is making it worse for everybody.