[barrkel]

The article isn't balanced. It's suggesting that the direction of the refactoring is an unalloyed good, as I read it. I disagree.

I've seen junior devs take this kind of stuff literally and over-apply it, like it's a religious ritual that they get a pious buzz from adhering to. I'd prefer people to think first before regurgitating what they most recently learned.

[hyperpape]

I agree wholeheartedly. I think the boolean blindness concept that's in the background of this article is incredibly important. But if you're going to propose an actual concrete solution, you need to assess whether it will be right all of the time, most of the time, or situationally (edit: and any of those answers is ok--it's fine to have a pattern that sometimes works if its presented as such). That requires looking at the ways it can go wrong. And this article just didn't do that.