Two things jump out at me initially. First, the assertion that cargo-culting is bad is hardly revelatory, regardless of the paradigm. Secondly, the five point list at the end of the diatribe is exactly what any transition from legacy monolithic system would follow in order to pursue a microservice infrastructure.

I can't decide if the author actually has a problem with an appropriately deployed microservice architecture (and no, you do not need 100 engineers to support such a thing... I replaced a legacy back-end system for a $100M/yr revenue company with such an architecture using 4 devs) or if this is just a misapplied generic rant about cargo culting that has been applied to $THINGIREADABOUTTODAY.