Yes exactly. The article would be much better positioned as What it actually takes to make systems ideas "just work". Then it isn't about whether it can or can'

Yes exactly. The article would be much better positioned as What it actually takes to make systems ideas "just work". Then it isn't about whether it can or can't but rather how it succeeds or fails. Having details about what it takes then stops people from saying "just" because they don't know what they're talking about. But I pretty much agree 100% about DSLs, it's an unnecessary/cute complication. The only people who should be allowed to make them should be ones who have made a successful programming language and updated it to deal with all their mistakes or a 2nd version/2nd language, and still got many things wrong.