Okay. I don’t really want to keep arguing about this. Your negativity seems entirely unwarranted, so I’m not really sure what you’re trying to achieve. Given the only thing I wanted to say is “this article is worth reading”, I don’t think there’s a productive line for this conversation to go down.
I think your summary is less useful than reading the whole article. Teaching well involves more than just stating a refined idea.
I also think the ideas in the article are worth the 25 minutes.
Another application of Parse, don’t validate. The vulnerability isn’t really about the single-line regex, it’s that the validation doesn’t match the use. If the regex extracted (read: parsed) the valid bit with a group, then passed that through, it would be fine.
I don’t know what your exact criteria for “sportswatch” is, but I’ve been very happy with my Bangle.js 2: https://banglejs.com/