Something that's being lost here is that this article is in the same vein as the seminal "Falsehoods programmers believe about time" [0] which contains quite a few statements which describe user error that developers still have to deal with (e.x. "The system clock will always be set to the correct local time.")

0. http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programm...

Well, you can create a zip full of nulls, that doesn't make it a zip.

You can't deal with all the configuration of all the atoms in the universe, you need to draw a line.

If something just can't be reasonably parsed, it's fair to reject it as invalid CSV.