Basically, you should aim to minimise complexity in software design, but importantly, complexity is defined as "how difficult is it to make changes to it". "How difficult" is largely determined by the amount of cognitive load necessary to understand it.
You can't win architecture arguments.
I like the article but the people who need it won't understand it and the people who don't need it already know this. As we say, it's not a technical problem, it's always a people and culture problem. Architecture just follows people and culture. If you have Rob Pike and Google you'll get Go. You can't read some book and make Go. (whether you like it or not is a different question).
That's true. One doesn't change his mindset just after reading. Even after some mentorship the results are far from satisfying. Engineers can completely agree with you on the topic, only to go and do just the opposite.
It seems like the hardest thing to do is to build a feedback loop - "what decisions I made in past -> what it led to". Usually that loop takes a few years to complete, and most people forget that their architecture decisions led to a disaster. Or they just disassociate themselves.
I think Big Orgs need to develop younger promising talent by letting them build small green fields projects. Essentially fostering startups inside the organisation proper. Let them build and learn from mistakes (while providing the necessary knowledge; you can actually learn most of this from books, but experience is the ultimate teacher). Otherwise you end up with 5 year experienced people who cannot design themselves out of a paper bag.