[hatsuseno]

In jest I'll also assume the author could write a similar article lamenting what storage tech could have been, but instead everyone with data that mattered took the maintenance hit with RAID and called it a day.

Commoditization is, to me, just a natural effect of product development in a free market, capitalist(-ish) society. It feels to me that as long as much of the population is chasing financially optimal outcomes this will continue to happen, and that may be okay.