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> Am I reading this right?

You're not. There may be no correlation between the platform being bad and it being profitable. If it happens to be bad, don't let your career depend upon it, unless it also happens to generate revenue for you.

The human body is an unstable platform that doctors make money off. Lawyers make money off the unstable legal platform. So it's been the case for thousands of years. Even better in recent times as you need a license to work that unstable platform;)

Yes. This is why I charge by the hour adhoc when I have to deal with windows. I can’t estimate all the weird ass problems in my initial quote.

Without context I think the part after unless is sort of sarcastic or ironic.

It's just good business advice.