[Grim-444]

Whether or not any of the post is accurate, it really just comes off as a begrudged ex-employee trying to throw dirt. As a supposedly former "senior software engineer", their entire description of the problem is that their system "went offline due to its outdated software packages and over utilized server resources aka cpu, memory and disk space.". There's zero technical detail, just an incredibly generic statement.

[Waterluvian]

Catastrophic failures are complex and often have many causes. Sure there might be a single root cause, but there’s a ton of other failures along the way.

Each engineer, in their speciality, will point out the problems they are most intimately aware of. This one is possibly doing just that. Unless they’re uniquely positioned and highly perceptive, they’re only aware of a small piece of the whole.

[SavageBeast]

Maybe all the "outdated software packages" just wore out at the same time? Packages are like tires and ya gotta change'em from time to time etc. I agree with your sentiment on this post.