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It mostly reads like they're exoticizing good development practice because they don't recognize it and/or haven't seen it elsewhere.

On the other hand, SV development culture is often obsessed with early release and adding features, traits I would identify with short-termism, rather than improving usability and minimising bloat (trends not rules). So a little old school conservatism might go a long way when it comes to software.. although the problems of too much silence in the face of seniority are also well known from the airline industry.

Agreed, it's cherry picked and strange since a lot of western developers already profess a lot of these practices -- especially the "extensive comments" and "descriptive naming" points.

It reminds me a lot about "innovative Japanese management solutions" which consists of MBAs learning what a bottleneck is and that DevOps is just sensible basic business practice.