If they did I'd honestly love to get the details and be proven wrong.

With just this list it's hard to imagine how this would work.

The only scenario where I can sort of imagine it being potentially helpful is an agency setting with many not-too-complex projects and limited ongoing development. I can imagine updating projects being a hassle. That said I don't have experience in that field, and I bet there are other ways to deal with that.

> wow all of this is too complex and stupid

Not that they were necessarily wrong, I also tend to reach this conclusion on most big web projects I work on.