"Taking full control of your I/O and buffer management is great if (a) your developers are all smart and experienced enough to be kernel programmers" is already

"Taking full control of your I/O and buffer management is great if (a) your developers are all smart and experienced enough to be kernel programmers" is already an appeal to authority in itself. We shouldn't apply a higher bar to the counterargument than we applied to the argument in the first place.