Perhaps the people who treat CoreOS being called bullshit as dispositive of the entire thesis, and an inclusion worthy of disregarding the author and thinking of him in any way other than making an argument, aren't the intended audience.
Pull the snark out and there will remain any element of this post that kicks off a violent HN centithread that conveniently avoids the core issue. You know it, I know it.
Snark directly related to the main point is fine. The CoreOS comment is unrelated.
In fact the author liked etcd in the time period when it was directly associated with the "bullshit" project. And even mentions "but that doesn't really matter".
Bashing K8S is at least related to the main point.
Pull the snark out and there will remain any element of this post that kicks off a violent HN centithread that conveniently avoids the core issue. You know it, I know it.