A hit piece is something written to intentionally degrade something. You can have a hit piece for Bitcoin, but not some technology. You can have a hit piece attacking someone who uses technology. But for that specific use, you wouldn't try to explain the idea as a thread through many different examples across many different separate engineering domains. This isn't a hit peice about your favorite flavor of tech, it's a "hit piece" about a new-enough trend that's appeared in SWE, it's a disagreement about an idea... more commonly referred to as, an opinion.

but you're right, opinions you don't agree with are dangerous.

While it may be a hit piece, I certainly understand the validity in the philosophical nature behind the ideology.

I reflect similarly in my own observations in general. We often foresee the future as a reflection of 'here and now' versus understanding the long-term implications of decisions made at vast scale.

There are many great examples right in plain sight in every day life.

I'm not so sure. Those technologies are lampooned, but in the context of a broader point, namely that software requires ever more effort to deliver results that are not objectively better. I think that observation is valid and interesting to consider, though the rest of the essay is all over the place.