They found an innovative way of raising money for a specific social issue, which is great. Now, this idea can inspire a lot of charities, but your comment may be interpreted as you don't care about the cause discussed here. Like the people replacing #BlackLivesMatter with #AllLivesMatter.
I love how that article points out how an environment gets to that point of sexism (or any other form of discrimination). A misunderstanding of what meritocracy is and should be allows people to get away with very harmful behavior.
I suggest a better title for that article: "How I blame technology X of almost ruining my career when I am the only one to blame because I did not understand what I was doing"
It's on my ToDo list to write a blog post about the technical problem itself :) Not only the replacement of the assets pipeline but also what we did before.
We decided to use Gulp and a bunch of real frontend tools like Browserify and Sass. We moved all the assets to a `frontend` directory, uninstalled the gem wrappers for js libraries and switched to npm to manage them. The assets pipeline is good for small apps, but when you grow, you need the right tools. Frontend tools are good for frontend, no matter how you like or dislike the Javascript ecosystem.