Ah, thank you, this is actually the argument, not what the article said.

Unfortunately I've become a bit disillusioned that we can reclaim the conversation to be about the optimal level of quality, and what tradeoffs are acceptable.

Office bullshit language seems to have strangled nuance so hard that I'm now sure that most of these conversations are useless and we'd better spend our focus on finding and working with mature adults that don't need that much convincing