The fundamental point (&quot;less is more&quot;) is a good point that is needlessly obscured by a layer of buzzword-talk (&quot;10x engineer&quot;, etc.). Using the buzzword-talk makes for a nice clickbaity headline, but as a consequence, the author spends at least 30% of the article addressing and explaining things related to the buzzword of choice. Such discussion is of little substance. Ultimately, the article can be distilled to a few central tenets (e.g. &quot;don&#x27;t build anything unnecessary -- think about the human costs of maintenance&quot;). I consider this somewhat ironic: the article, which is chiefly about avoiding cruft in production, contains a fair amount of cruft.