Architecture astronauts take over

"sounds like a project that is started on horribly wrong basis" -- this is how he starts. Maybe he intended to say what you said ("announcement doesn't give any indication of what the project is for"), but I'd say there is room for misunderstanding there... There's a world of difference with "there's not enough information to evaluate this project" and "this project started on the wrong basis".

It's true that the announcement should have come with a link to http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/05/23/some-benefits-of-print... but lets not make that omission a larger issue than it is.