Well, like I said: you can always give up. Sometimes that's the rational thing to do, even when you are engaged in the game.

However...

> I pretty routinely bail out of the politics of decisions when it's mostly to the company's detriment.

Maybe your judgment of "detriment" is right, maybe it's wrong, but the point of the article is that too many engineers want to do what you're doing as some kind of misguided purity play.