But of course this is much easier to say than to put in practice; "what needs to be done" is very hard to know, while random generic advice is always top of mind.
So then we shouldn’t follow the advice in this article either.
Maybe we should just do nothing lest we follow someone’s advice.
Their advice is to not cargo cult. Not to ignore all advice.
What that would mean is that even for the advice that they give, not to cargo cult, you need to examine whether that’s actually good advice or not.
It may turn out that your product is a component library, in which case, being in the spaces the cargo cult tells you to be it may actually make sense for you to follow, because that’s where the largest market would be.