Even so, intentionally trying to be being a contrarian is a good way for industry to avoid groupthink and cargo culting. It's really valuable. I'm sure somebody will write an article called "Do Things That Scale" soon.
Oh, they definitely wrote those articles, over and over again. Google is lousy with, "Paul Graham was wrong" articles, he tends to attract that kind of attention, given the way he writes (personal, about his experience, sometimes mistaken for "this is always right").