The author seems to propose it is impossible for large teams to be productive. They even go so far as to claim most potential team mates have malice intent to “sabotage the project”.

Amazon is an example of an organization that does this well (i used to work there). Small teams are responsible for their own project(s). Project(s) can be composed to form higher level project(s). It’s certainly not impossible, and id rather put in effort to manage team(s) than to place an increasingly insurmountable amount of pressure on myself.

Perhaps the reason the author’s project has “few users” is that there are competing alternatives that have authors who understand how to leverage team work to deliver more value to users, and users go where they perceive value.

Also, if you worked for an organization that actually hired (and retained) people with malice intent, i dont think team size was the real issue. In that sense i do agree with the author that you should screen anyone and ensure your goals align before agreeing to invest time in trying to work together. If someone is offering to add a feature you dont think fits in the project, i have a hard time characterizing that as “malice intent”, though!