>I'd argue this article isn't about legal requirements and the like so much

Yes, it fails to address that other businesses face additional complexity and constraints that they don't have and then broadly over-prescribed their principles.

I'm genuinely curious how you're separating "legal requirements" from "implementation" (of either product, or process). When you build things, you have constraints, and you have to respect those constraints, or you built something lousy. If understanding those constraints is part of the building process, then trying to find the fastest way to incorporate those constraints into the product while minimizing time this blocks product development (and thus, velocity), seems like the obvious thing to optimize for. So I don't understand how you're trying to separate those (and to to be overly clear, I'm asking out of genuine curiosity to understand your point better).