While I agree with the author, I also don't think I want to work with this person.
People in orgs that groan and complain are sometimes their own kind of difficult. They find ways of reducing overall morale by constantly making fun of the work and devaluing what everyone else is doing.
This is like taking the batteries out of the fire alarm. It's not like there aren't times where maybe you should do that, but they're rare and temporary. How many situations are there where you'd rather have the fire than the alarm?
Reducing morale or devaluing work sound bad, but they can be more descriptive (as opposed to subjective) than they may seem. The work might be poor. It's possible morale should be low. The alarm goes off because it's sensor is better than the average person's. If the alarm is broken, that's a different story, but it would suggest not "agree[ing] with the author."
I don't think you're at all alone in the preference, it just kinda reflects our relationship to work in that people opt for the fire.
A fire alarm is useless if it's always going off. The point of a fire alarm is that it goes off only when it's needed. Negative people are like a fire alarm that's always going off. I'm not accusing the writer of that, it's just a general comment.
People in orgs that groan and complain are sometimes their own kind of difficult. They find ways of reducing overall morale by constantly making fun of the work and devaluing what everyone else is doing.