You figured it out. People didn't like the article because they're too stupid to read that many words. Or they were confused by the title.
It's not cause the tone is accusatory, or because it rambles, or compares mission critical life-or-death Apollo software with the unimportant web and native applications we write now. Yep, it's cause people are too dumb to look at that many words without a beer commercial dropped in the middle of it.
Saying "people who disagree with my opinions are too stupid to understand the subtlety of the point" is the rhetorical equivalent of denial in the Kubler-Ross sense of the word.
It's not cause the tone is accusatory, or because it rambles, or compares mission critical life-or-death Apollo software with the unimportant web and native applications we write now. Yep, it's cause people are too dumb to look at that many words without a beer commercial dropped in the middle of it.
Saying "people who disagree with my opinions are too stupid to understand the subtlety of the point" is the rhetorical equivalent of denial in the Kubler-Ross sense of the word.