It's a beautiful rant, and I feel his pain. How does it happen that Google goes from having the best maps on the web to a broken toy? That Amazon goes from having fantastic search to returning lists of random items? That modern browswers can once again have visible lag when typing fast? Toward the end, he offers his solution:

  I think an interesting idea for development would be to 
  have a totally separate "finishing team". You get all new 
  developers and managers on at the end, so that they aren't 
  wedded to any of the ideas, they aren't building fences 
  around their work and unwilling to change anything, they 
  aren't prideful and unable to admit that it sucks. The 
  finishing team is only concerned with the *results*, what 
  the actual user experience is, and they can mercilessly cut 
  up the product to make it better. Politically the finishers 
  have no stake in keeping work, so they can even revert huge 
  chunks or just cut features.

Does anyone do this? Or would it just be too demoralizing?