> Let's move from an over-engineered approach to an under-engineered one.

The article says this to deride C++s implementation as being too complicated because it supports ranges such as [-3,17] and then promptly goes on to discuss how a modulo based implementation is very biased if the upper end of the range is above 2^31. It's not really clear why the former use case is unimportant but the latter isn't.

It just goes to show that one person's niche use case is another person's main use case. I wish people would just avoid the judgemental term "over engineered" and instead focus on matching appropriate algorithms to appropriate use cases.