This dude is everything that is wrong with software and how it is built now.
Havoc Pennington also really sucks, so it’s no surprise that the poster I linked above seems to adore him. The problem with the approach this post applauds — of removing features because it makes devs’ lives easier1 — is that it ends up creating software for the stupidest people alive. And who wants to use software for the 75-IQ crowd? Certainly not me. Let them have their own drool-based interfaces. I simply need more power than that.
This post was written in 2013. Of course, people like me knew this was the path to taking away as much control as possible from Firefox users. And we were told we were wrong (and I was banned for Reddit for saying what was occurring was in fact occurring), that was not the reason Mozilla was doing the things they were doing, and that we dissenters were crazy.
And of course it is exactly what happened. Just as we knew it would.