I note your opinion, John Farley, and am of course willing to look at my takeaway from the "Harvard Business Review".
If the conclusion is mistaken, and/or based on something out of contextual foundation, I will immediately retract it.
I believe the text of the writer is self explanatory, that modular design relieves one of the necessity to "integrate" each component with the whole.
If that was meant sarcastically, (which I doubt), then I am indeed in need of reassessing.
Fracturing the design and composition, let alone the integration (assembly) of a complex technology (airframe) to me has always been lunacy.
I may have let that prejudice color my opinion.
So I am in your debt. Also, you are free to be as harsh as you wish, the thickness of my skin should be apparent by now. Gratuitous insult is something I have never seen you employ.
Best wishes, Sir