Agreed. As both a columnist and an IT guy, I did several tests. In short, it's not very good. It's babbling too much. Good writing is short, sharp, to the point and it has an "arc". Those things writes like an "stay at home mum". It repeats stuff, drifts off - and at the end it just stops. Like a bad jazz musician. I think a professional would not only sniff him out, but also his work would stand out against a guy like that - even to a layman. It just shows how many people can get away with (let's be nice) mediocre work.

I partly agree with you, but also don't underestimate humanity's capacity for absolute laziness and ignorance. I worked in IT for a long time, and people paid me hundreds of dollars to do very simple tasks that they themselves could have easily accomplished, but because it had anything to do with a computer screen, they automatically assumed that they weren't capable enough to accomplish the task themselves.