I don't understand why this is on the top of Hacker News. It seems to be one person's opinions and experiences about complex issues that face hundreds of thousands of engineers in thousands of companies across the world.

Nothing in the article makes me trust this persons perspective over any other. It's not thoroughly investigated with metrics over many case studies. There's no empirical evidence to back up his assertions. He doesn't have a reputation for other work that would make me trust his informed opinion over any others.

There seems to be hundreds of articles touting every possible side of this issue, why did this one strike a chord?