Is "Brogrammer" Culture Really So Bad?

It comes down to the grey area between complete creativity and rigidity. The creativity and comfort associated with a complete free will is desired because it can produce some of the best material while at the possible expense of unprofessionalism. While he other end completely squishes creativity and is a crappy work environment.

In this example it was obviously a worker being over-rebellious just because he can, so obviously brogrammer culture is negative.

The trick is having the creative freedom, but also understanding that you don't have to be a dick/rude to have creative freedom.

I am a guy, and I wish I had the opportunity to have complete freedom over my work area, but it is dicks like that who keep companies worried about HR issues

The article's answer seems to be yes, Because investors don't like lawsuits.