Author of the article here: I absolutely agree with you. I also do quite a bit of web development, and I've encountered these issues in both contexts - notably

Author of the article here: I absolutely agree with you. I also do quite a bit of web development, and I've encountered these issues in both contexts - notably a few years ago when I got very excited about Rails. These days I do most of my web-side work in PHP precisely because it's the language I've been using for years, and thus I'm more aware of the hidden bumps in the road.