I completely agree with this statement. Further, what scares me about this article is that he's basically reasserting every programmer's mindset in a different

I completely agree with this statement. Further, what scares me about this article is that he's basically reasserting every programmer's mindset in a different context: "Writing new code is awesome! Maintaining this giant mass of code sucks (regardless of if it's good or bad code)!" I don't have anything against the article or its ideas, but yeah, that maintaining a company of 86 of even the most self-sufficient employees is less fun than creating a web application you have complete control over is unsurprising.