> The OP took the elements of the original announcement—the
> pretentiousness, the naïve pomposity, the buddy-buddy
> informality—and turned them up to eleven.
That's an interesting choice of words you used. How can something be both pretentious and buddy-buddy informal?
Pretentious: "Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed."
Greater important and talent than possessed? Meyer conveys an informal team of three people and an intern. She also admits to just having enough knowledge of Adobe Illustrator to be dangerous. You even admit that it's buddy-buddy and informal, which downplays the importance. What if you got the impression that the design session was buddy-buddy because that's what it authentically was? Should she have lied and said that it was a rigorous exercise that was formally structured as a meeting of non-equals rather than a collaboration of colleagues?
Pompous: "Exaggeratedly or ostentatiously dignified or self-important."
Perhaps I'm not seeing the "naïve pomposity" in the post. Selecting what to convey in a logo is by definition subjective. The same applies for conveying what kind of food or clothing you like. I submit that any sufficiently detailed description of the rationale behind your food and clothing choices could be similarly mocked, unless you disregard taste by eating the cheapest food possible, or disregard color and style by wearing the cheapest clothing possible.