To play the devil's advocate, what happens when that vocal minority happens to be in a leadership position at your company, like the director of engineering or CTO? It doesn't even have to be a programmer who is infatuated with a methodology in order to push it out onto other developers. Very rarely do we individual programmers choose to use the methodologies of which we are subjected.
That's fine, but the author explicitly stated that the article was written because "the vast majority of developers react to all these things." My point was that this statement seems to me to be untrue.
