Though as the author himself implies, it's not always appropriate to allocate the time necessary to do anything but corner-cutting.

"If you say that you don't take this relatively fast road for Linux init scripts, I'll raise my eyebrows a lot. You've really read the LSB specification for init scripts and your distribution's distro-specific documentation?"

To be clear, the intention was to point out this (generally bad practice) is practiced in many fields. The intention wasn't to suggest it's ok/good.