This looks like an outline for a potentially interesting article. But the language is too vague to even know how to react to the ideas. What is meant by "extracting a subelement"? "Make the problem easy" sounds great but could mean lots of different contradictory things. So please write the articles being hinted at in this outline, but as is, it's a bit tough to get anything from it.
I agree with you even though I disagree with most of the criticism of the article here.
I feel like I know what Kent is talking about behind most of these points, even though his words only hint at the deeper principle. He's trying to be too brief, but I can tell there's depth there.
For many of the points, I had to think a bit, and then it clicked, "Oh, he's talking about xyz. Yep, he's right. But his words don't really say that."
Kent Beck is not some AbstractFactoryStrategySingleton fool. I've learned a ton of insights from him, and I've seen him articulate insights that I had stumbled across and incorporated, but had not been able to articulate.
I'll grant you that some other talking heads often lumped in with Beck have been overhyped and their rhetoric has run ahead of their insight. And no one is perfect. But Beck usually has real insight behind what he is saying, and this IMO is no exception.
