This is a very bad take, and serves only to highlight the joylessness of the person writing it (and the original "design principles")
I would instantly dispute pretty much any word of the first 3 sentences in your post. (except maybe the name)
If you want to live in a world without choice, where everyone and everything looks the same (the inevitable endpoint of form follows function), be my guest, but at the end of your sad life you will remember all the times you looked back over the fence at all the people enjoying life in all its diverse forms, shapes, textures, activities and regret some choices you made along the way.
I clicked this and was immeasurably disapointed that the article talks about Apache Kafka, and not the author Kafka and how to understand his work with Factorio.
I want to break a torch for the "Dumb and get things done" crowd.
With out them nothing would get finished.
Try developing a complex and large product with a team consisting only of "smart and getting things done" people.
Not going to happen. never. complete disaster from the start.
You need the "dagtd" people to do the essential but boring parts.
Attend customer meetings. Write requirements and documentation. etc.
NEED. THEM. BADLY. No way around it.
Luckily that is not as big a problem as it seems, because about 80% of "smart and getting things done" people are actually "dumb and getting things done".
They just don't know it. Which is perfectly fine. Just don't tell them.
Most of us begin as babies.