It's not blaming the author to notice that he doesn't appear very interested in this essay with communicating with most people in terms they'll understand. Sure, it's just his style, but it's hard to be optimistic about how much buy-in he'll get for his plan "to re-do the introductory curriculum in Computer Science to modernize it".
I guess I'm not disagreeing with you, but I personally find his style exhilarating. I mean, come on:
Dijkstra used to say “beauty is our business”, to which I would add that life is too short, and bright minds too precious, to waste on ugly things. And if you take this point of view seriously, the best and the brightest are drawn to, rather than repulsed by, the field. Pace some of my colleagues at a Major Institute of Technology, students absolutely do love to program and do love the beauty of code, provided that the code you ask them to write is, in fact, beautiful. There is nothing more dreary than the corporate bureaucracy of OOP, and few things more lovely than the mathematical elegance of FP.
