I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
This isn't a straw man - the title of the post is "put down the destructuring hammer". It's a play on the old, "when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail".
What they're saying is that destructuring is nice, but not to use it all the time in every situation without thinking about what you're doing, and whether you're going to make things more difficult for someone else to work on down the line.
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This isn't a straw man - the title of the post is "put down the destructuring hammer". It's a play on the old, "when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail".
What they're saying is that destructuring is nice, but not to use it all the time in every situation without thinking about what you're doing, and whether you're going to make things more difficult for someone else to work on down the line.