Sorry, but the parent commenter had a point - it sounds like you did not pay enought attention to the article.

    > elementary almost completely removes menus. As a heavy 
    keyboard shortcut user this makes discovering shortcuts 
    difficult

    > the Mac App Store, Homebrew and Arch Linux. With each of 
    these it’s a simple matter to install the latest version 
    of a tool or application. On elementary I ran into a 
    number of cases where software I wished to install did not 
    exist in the Ubuntu repos or were outdated

    > as time went on I started running into more bugs [...] 
    At this point the system was actively harming my productivity

This doesn't seem to fare very well for your 'as long as everything works' view. The difficulty to install popular software is the exact opposite of that. I love Elementary OS and its UI style/guidelines; found it many years ago, but have stayed with OSX since. As the author mentions, basing it on a Ubuntu LTS release comes with consequences and is a questionable decision for a desktop.