Terrifying, and we're all running around blasting ourselves with chemicals, medicines and god knows what. Kind of like physics, we get down to one layer and we're still nowhere.
Though I understand your reasoning as to why you call devops etc fraud, these developers are under a huge amount of pressure from the business side of things to "just make it work TM".
That's a pretty good summary. It can be pretty tough to analyse permissions across a big Java application though, which is harder than analysing a small C programme that does some kind of math simulation or something. So I can see the real world application of this paradigm.
Dimensionality is a common problem in many sciences but this article is really crazy! Maybe we won't know some of the answers to these questions until we make our own black holes?