to be fair though, isn't "it's cheaper" just the same thing the article laments from the consumer side? It just extends the argument from "devs are cheap" to "users are cheap as well"
the overriding concern seems to be that if we continue to stack crappy tech on top of crappy tech and accept it as consumers for twenty years we've built the tower of Babel (some might argue we're there already) and that this is terrible long term engineering.
If we treated semiconductors or aerospace engineering the same way we wouldn't have any chips to run electron software on and the planes would keep falling out of the sky.
the overriding concern seems to be that if we continue to stack crappy tech on top of crappy tech and accept it as consumers for twenty years we've built the tower of Babel (some might argue we're there already) and that this is terrible long term engineering.
If we treated semiconductors or aerospace engineering the same way we wouldn't have any chips to run electron software on and the planes would keep falling out of the sky.