The author himself notes paying at least a $100K global salary as of 2019, which implies he does engage in outsourcing. As such, the article is self-contradicting. Maybe the author should go back to writing about Javascript since javscript-scene is in the URL.

You can get bad engineers anywhere, including in the US. It's up to management to enforce a sane engineering process, although being the parasites that they are, they never will.