Sounds to me like the author should perhaps stop and think a bit more before "firing the arrows".
You don't need to wildly iterate and iterate and iterate if you spend some time doing design work upfront. If you just sit down and start slinging code at the screen without much planning then of course you are going to have to waste a lot of time reworking stuff. While "boring" it is ultimately faster to just do some up-front planning/designing so you know what your DOM needs to be before you start.
It takes discipline to work like this though, so I guess it is not for everyone.
You don't need to wildly iterate and iterate and iterate if you spend some time doing design work upfront. If you just sit down and start slinging code at the screen without much planning then of course you are going to have to waste a lot of time reworking stuff. While "boring" it is ultimately faster to just do some up-front planning/designing so you know what your DOM needs to be before you start.
It takes discipline to work like this though, so I guess it is not for everyone.