The referenced article Pure and Impure Engineering was discussed a few months back here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45165753

I find these drive-by-attacks on CQRS to be particularly frustrating. Some people know CQRS or CQS are fairly straightforward ideas that can be nice to use and give you some benefits. Some people believe CQRS is some kind of elitist architecture authoritarianism bogeyman in the same category as the microservice pushback.