I think it would distract from the points he's making. The article could be misread as a rant about a bad time he had, when it's actually meant to make a specific point about considering async vs sync transactions and what happens when they're combined in the same system.

And I don't believe that only one streaming service and one bank makes such mistakes.

Author here. This! The point isn't to name and shame, but to illustrate a complex failure mode. I too could see myself writing this bug!