Comment by lobstrosity420

> As anything, I don't think we can say "I recommend / don't recommend X book", all knowledge and experience is useful. Just use your judgment and don't treat programming books as a holy book.

People don't want to go through the trouble of reading several opposing points of view and synthesize that using their own personal experience. They want to have a book tell them everything they need to do and follow that blindly, and if that ever bites them back then that book was clearly trash. This is the POV the article seems to be written from IMHO.