Obviously the article is making valid points. But a recent epiphany I had is, things by default are just mediocre but works. Of course the first shot at this problem is not going to be very good, very much like the first version of JavaScript is a shitshow and we’ll take years to pay down the technical debts. In order to force a beautiful creation, significant effort and will power needs to be put in place. So Id say I’m not surprised at all and this is just how the world works, in most cases.