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>article is from 2009
It's very on point, things have only gotten worse and the problems much more pervasive, he even talks about neural nets.
And it's the exact same problem: "Based on our pitch material our VC backed startup will grow to 1 billion users in 6 months, we need to address this before we even have a product."

>gRPC
It reminded of Erlang type rpc functionality as a band aid to the rat's nest problem you mentioned.

>commercially available bananas are clones
>it's better to locally source your binaries
I doubt the people pushing for these can manage their own systems the traditional way. The projects they build are so similar that it feels like they are just repeating the same exact narrow skillset they've been trained for at their job.
They also completely ignore the process by which OSS is being created and maintained, that is by teams of people working together without a cabal dictating how things should interact.

A lot of these problems would probably be further exaggerated by the type of monetized OSS development that has turned android into a shitheap. Just whoever is funding a big chunk of OSS projects trying to terraform the landscape into something more centralized and easily controlled.