I think you might be missing the point the article was trying to make when you took the negative emotion which the author was describing (“annoyances”) and turned it into a positive one (“delight”). I don’t think you can simply say delight is the absence of annoyance, and that good applications are ones which delight their users.

Because while delightful interactions can wow your users and get them to tweet about your application, the mark of a great user experience is that it goes largely unnoticed by the user. You don’t notice a door when you walk through it; you’d only notice it if you couldn’t get through it. We only pay attention to tools when things go wrong; as developers we are keenly aware of this fact whenever we have to debug code which stops working.

A seamless user experience should actually be imperceptible to the user, and I’m not sure this has anything to do with delightfulness or juiciness or any of the other stretch goals UI people come up with. The fact of the matter is, not annoying the user isn’t as sexy, and boils down to competence (writing bug-free code) and consent (not using dark patterns to get the user to do shit they don’t want to do).