They could do both (like every other competent UX team does). All of those problems are still their, I was responding to the point made in the post, that they

They could do both (like every other competent UX team does). All of those problems are still their, I was responding to the point made in the post, that they couldn't ship the awesome design, because there are people with little screens... That is what responsive is for, meaning they could have shipped exactly what they shipped PLUS the awesome design (that they themselves, said was awesome). So yes, media queries fix exactly their problem, as they had two designs that they liked, but one was only good for big screens, the other for little screens. To put it more bluntly they had already solved all the other issues (and more) you talked about... just the screen size was the only problem (cited in that post!)