It really does a disservice to the cause as well. If we assume everything bad is the work of untouchable dark figures in smoke filled rooms, we'll never confront the real problem of various policies with broken incentives.
In that worldview I think it's the dark figures in smoke-filled rooms who are in charge of all policy, broken-incentive or not.
More seriously: in any system where broken incentives are [still] in place, isn't it typically those in power who are primarily responsible for that being so?
Which, for every demographic in the US besides white, straight Christian men, has often just been the self-evident truth.
The overarching policy here with broken incentives is the kind of relatively unrestricted capitalism which Silicon Valley would be loath to give up. Most of the attitudes listed in the article tie strongly into that: money is seen as defining worth, values that can’t be monetized or that inhibit profit are rejected, often vehemently, and so on.
If you’re inclined to dismiss a piece like this, it may be because you’re too enmeshed in at least some of the ideologies in question to recognize its accuracy.