[veidr]

Did you really read the piece? The reason I ask is that what he wrote and what you wrote are essentially the exact same:

    I’m happy to write integration
    tests. I insist on it. But a 
    part of me registers the need 
    for integration tests as a 
    failure or limitation of my 
    design skills.

(That's how I feel about integration tests, too — which I always use.)