I have no comment on this article's specific claims, and I have every reason to believe the author is both intelligent and insightful. That said, so many times

I have no comment on this article's specific claims, and I have every reason to believe the author is both intelligent and insightful. That said, so many times in my professional life I run into the same problem: people think some idea is a truism which broadly applies to all or most situations. The problems faced are seldom deeply understood, and so that truism is misapplied by people attempting to follow the latest best practices. This seems like a pernicious meta-problem related to profitability and work resources. ie, people cannot deeply understand all problems, and so they are content to make larger errors in a number of places so long as "more work" is getting done. I don't think this problem will ever disappear.