I don't really get the comparison to vagrant. It doesn't seem like it feels the same role? Can distro box be used to share environments with other developers or used in CI/CD processes?
You're making it that much easier for someone to brute force logging in or to exploit a known vulnerability. If you have a separate root password (which you should) an attacker needs to get through two passwords to do anything privileged.
This has been considered an accepted best practice for 20+ years and there's little reason not to do it anyways. You shouldn't be running things as root directly regardless.
Yes you are making an unreasonable complaint. You're complaining that the story doesn't include one particular niche element of interest to you and comparing it to having shit thrown in your face.
Sounds like someone pulled the Andon Cord. Must be a big issue but this is an intentional part of the manufacturing system that Toyota invented - if there's an issue you still production until it's fixed.
He was forced out (maybe?) of the company he was a key member of. He and his former company have thrown a LOT of mud at each other since then, mostly about claims of Alexis being an abusive jackass or sexual harasser, while he claims the reverse and that they're running hit pieces on him. There's been so much back and forth that it's hard to make heads or tails of any of it. And none of it turned into a legal matter so never progressed past "he said she said".
To be fair it's in response to a guy that started off by calling the programmers lazy.