Am I the only one that is convinced, that this junior dev has never existed and this is all just made up to have a nice story to tell while pointing out common mistakes in software development (from the author's point of view) ...

Medium has become more about story telling than about informative and interesting content ... and this articel is one of them. It could have been nice to point out why the author is convinced that all of the pain points he makes are an issue, but instead he made a comedy around it ...

Do not get fooled by those medium authors that have thousands of followers and write one article each week Medium is slowly becoming overloaded by "influencers" that write anything to generate views and earn money with it. The more it provokes the better