I see your Chesterton's fence and raise a Gell-Mann amnesia. Yes, the phenomenon in the article is real, but the opposite is also true. Many times I have seen something, thought it is silly, wrong, or could be done better, but I reserved judgement because I didn't know much about the subject. And then in the end, I was right.
Be it some technical choice at work that had obvious flaws. Or when we were renovating our house and as a layperson I noticed a serious problem the experts didn't see. Or when I was reading about poststructuralism, or critical theory at university. I had a feeling it was just a lot of word games around a couple important ideas - then I put in the work and read books and went to courses, and yupp, that was basically true.
Looking at it from the other side, as an expert on some topics, I know there are a lot of things we do that are not justified by the "subject matter" but we just do them because we have always been doing them, or because a pointy haired boss decided so. Or we have operational blindness and can't notice the flaws anymore.
Be it some technical choice at work that had obvious flaws. Or when we were renovating our house and as a layperson I noticed a serious problem the experts didn't see. Or when I was reading about poststructuralism, or critical theory at university. I had a feeling it was just a lot of word games around a couple important ideas - then I put in the work and read books and went to courses, and yupp, that was basically true.
Looking at it from the other side, as an expert on some topics, I know there are a lot of things we do that are not justified by the "subject matter" but we just do them because we have always been doing them, or because a pointy haired boss decided so. Or we have operational blindness and can't notice the flaws anymore.