People complain about Torvalds being "nasty" in emails, but i think Cantrill really need to lay off the caffeine.
The audio versions are bad enough, but on the video he keeps ramming his face into the camera.
No, it's a lot of reasonable points about Linux interface quality.
Evolution is a proper model for observing biological reality. It is not a model for software architecture.
You may have an initial design that fits perfectly to the task at hand at that particular time and place. But either you insist on starting over from scratch every time the task changes to even a minor degree, or you modify (evolve) an existing design to fit the changed circumstances.