The thing is, the article does not say "There are many circumstances where logging is a great tool." Who would object to that? However, what the article says

The thing is, the article does not say "There are many circumstances where logging is a great tool." Who would object to that? However, what the article says is "One of the differences between a great programmer and a bad programmer is that a great programmer adds logging and tools that make it easy to debug the program when things fail." In other words, he's more or less explicitly saying people who do not use logging are bad programmers. So it's not at all surprising that there is vocal disagreement.