This is such a weird article. All of his examples are insane strawman non-idomatic C# code, and then he complains when they don't do whatever he decides "an average programmer" would expect them to do. Huh? They were all either doing exactly what I expected them to do (silly things), or were so strange and alien that even Visual Studio has no idea what to do with them! I've never seen anything like that Cell<T> example and it doesn't come close to compiling. What a weird, weird thing to do: write code that literally does not compile and then complain about it!?