In fairness, RickS does seem to consider what MS says rather than simply repeating it and he has criticized MS direction on several occasions with merit IMHO. But yeah, the prejudice that not going with the flow indicates a personal fault or imminent disaster, does get tiresome.

If we really want lectures about change, maybe we should ask the sorts of people who moved from other highly-qualified lucrative careers into IT, or back again. (Example: JVP who apparently is back in IT after earning a law degree, and I believe you have a PhD. ;-) ) That sort of real change may carry useful lessons. It's also a path that some of us are going to have to follow since the "change" of development from a profession into a commodity controlled by vendors now seems irreversible.