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Companies do want all the requirements listed. They're just well aware they're probably not ever going to get them.

Unfortunately not everyone knows this, I've had many conversations with people looking for jobs who decline to apply because they don't feel they meet all the requirements. My advice to them is: "No one meets all the requirements, if you meet even 50% of them and want to learn the other ones, you should be applying. You don't have to be the perfect applicant, just the best person who happened to apply in the time-frame of the hiring pool."

-- having read the article now: I help write our job reqs, and I agree and use the author's "nice to have" section for non-critical "requirements".