Given the history of the writer of the blog post's (apenwarr) involvement in Debian, I highly doubt they missed that particular bugaboo. Mayhap he's just burned

Given the history of the writer of the blog post's (apenwarr) involvement in Debian, I highly doubt they missed that particular bugaboo. Mayhap he's just burned out by it at this point, or he's just stating the facts: there's not really anything anyone who cares can do do change it, so don't spend precious attention worrying about it.