Absolutely... And until Cardiff I would admit being guilty of this myself. I called on here for a return to 4411, to be pragmatic and return to boring, defensive football. But I didn't see the folly in this in the medium/long term.
The premise of the argument in the article is really that 'progress' no longer means climbing the table. No one is standing still so if you don't progress yourselves you will just slide backwards and eventually out of the league... We were right on the edge of that precipice and not progressing...