Jeremy Falcon wrote:

Here's the thing the article does not account for, platform consistency.

Jeremy Falcon wrote:

Consistency man. Who cares about what what some guy wrote on his blog.

Wow, I guess you just skipped over the whole section about Platform Consistency not being good enough:

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It’s also a popular excuse to use to not think deeply about the design problems users face. What’s the benefit of following a design convention, if one doesn’t know why it exists, or if it’s right for users in the first place?

If consistency becomes your sole argument, then there is no need to refute anything else. You have chosen the point that no design rationale is important because all that matters is what everyone else does. Okay, I do not want to get into a big argument, but my observation is that there is no real consistency in the wide world of UI. I have seen places where Cancel | OK is used instead of OK | Cancel and that means that everyone always has to read the screen carefully. Inconsistency is consistent.