The point isn't very clear from the article. Frankly, I've never seen anyone changing working code simply for the sake of showing off their sophistication, so i

The point isn't very clear from the article. Frankly, I've never seen anyone changing working code simply for the sake of showing off their sophistication, so it feels like a straw-man argument. What does happen quite often is what I described above: people changing code to make it more comprehensible for themselves. If that happens a lot to your code, the answer isn't felling butt-hurt (which seems to be the case with the author) and blaming it on "dysfunctional" personalities of other coders. The answer is to write comments, do better job naming stuff, be clearer about things in general.