alt Hacker NewsI find these drive-by-attacks on CQRS to be particularly frustrating. Some people know CQRS or CQS are fairly straightforward ideas that can be nice to use and give you some benefits. Some people believe CQRS is some kind of elitist architecture authoritarianism bogeyman in the same category as the microservice pushback.
There's definitely some that hold CQRS, DDD, TDD, ... as _the_ way to design software and over-engineer around it, so I can understand some pushback.
Knowing those patterns is very helpful as a way to think about design problems, as long as you have the common sense to realize applying the pattern "by the book" is often overkill and you can just take some ideas out of it.
That article conflates as "Pure engineering" both reducing a software system to a small set of cohesive concepts, and architecture astronauts, when those are polar opposites.