Could'nt agree more. If the point of the article was: for people who want to do the same old thing then they neednt bother about the new(^) changes, then thats almost a tautology. Someone will find a way to do something useful with the new capabilities of commodity CPUs. If I do not want to delve in those bits, it ensures that the person wont be me.

^ Disclaimer: parallelism/concurrency is far from new though.