> I like the article but the people who need it won't understand it

That's true. One doesn't change his mindset just after reading. Even after some mentorship the results are far from satisfying. Engineers can completely agree with you on the topic, only to go and do just the opposite.

It seems like the hardest thing to do is to build a feedback loop - "what decisions I made in past -> what it led to". Usually that loop takes a few years to complete, and most people forget that their architecture decisions led to a disaster. Or they just disassociate themselves.