I'm kind on the fence, but not with the article. It's true that there are engineers who lean more towards one or the other way. For example, since the author brings up the switch from Neovim to VS Code due to features, I do love using Neovim for my TypeScript and Golang needs. But, if I were to work with Java or C# I'm switching to IntelliJ or Rider.

I believe it's healthier to attain some kind of pure-leaning... centrism(?) if we were to present pure/impure as black/white choices. I find it easier to imagine someone who deeply cares about squeezing performance through min-maxing to suddenly shift gears and deliberately introduce debt and just ship-ship-ship for the sake of pushing the product out, because they know exactly the price of the corner that they're cutting.

So I don't see it as a "you're either this or that" but more like "you should be this, and also be that when it's deemed appropriate".