Unfortunately the reality is that some poor coders will be lumbered with whatever the CIO read about in a Forrester report. The article itself counts as "research".

While I agree with your sentiment I'm not sure if that's definitely the case.

First, when you have an average level of programmer (as the sort of corporations that would hire a senior analyst tend to), selecting the right tools is where you can innovate against your competition.

Second, if this wasn't written by a non-programmer, but instead was an Ask-YC "What stack would you use to build the next Google/Facebook/Amazon etc." I don't think this same criticism would be levelled at the author.

Wouldn't you want to hire a senior programmer to make programming decisions?

I'm not sure I get your point in relation to mine, can you elaborate?

I thought you were suggesting hiring analysts to fix the problems that the amateur programmers created. But now that I re-read your post, it seems like you are just observing how the industry works.

Honestly, I think we should feed "analysts" as much bad data as possible so that the companies that rely on analysts are killed off. The analysts will then die too :) (Have you ever poisoned someone to cure their cold? This would be like that. Kill the host, then the virus dies :)

I have to admit I've never poisoned someone to cure their cold.

It's 100% effective!