[madrobby]

Hey, I'm Thomas, the author of the article. I do agree with your observations pretty much entirely.

I'm mostly talking about the "throw a component, library or jQuery plugin at everything" sort of mentality. That just yields and unmaintainable buggy mess—unfortunately I've encountered this all too often in the wild. (While I was a consultant, I could make a good living from cleaning up these messes, so I won't complain too much!)

It all boils down to, however, a willingness to actually think about the things you're doing, and trying to do good solid work. IMO not enough people do that, or even aspire to do that, which makes me a bit sad about "my" profession.