I have sympathy for the engineers.
Lets not forget that without them we wouldn't be able to carry out our own functions so smoothly.
As far as journalism goes, the article didn't actually state that maintenance was the cause of any of the recent tragic events, it did however infer. When compared with other articles I think this one remained pretty level headed. Not sure about the accuracy of the comment though.
I think it should be a cause of concern , last week an article from a concerned pilot, this week from concerned engineers.
Will anything change, probably not.
One other interesting fact ........our recent thread has had over 30,000 hits, look at this one. I do feel a bit guilty about that, if they get it wrong, we could be in big trouble up there!