Hi, author here. I'm not personally opposed to the idea of crowdsourcing, nor the idea of changing a logo as needed—I respect Rand Paul for doing this, actually.
But I was writing that section of the piece with the assumption that _Paul Rand_ might not like it, considering that some of his commentary near the end of his life (in the early age of computers) questioned the negative effects that democratized design, specifically through desktop publishing, had on visual identity.
Design has gotten better online in recent years, and many more people are handy at Photoshop/InDesign than they were two decades ago, but this philosophy was one common in the early desktop publishing age, when people commonly screwed up things like kerning, typographers' quotes, and so on.
But I was writing that section of the piece with the assumption that _Paul Rand_ might not like it, considering that some of his commentary near the end of his life (in the early age of computers) questioned the negative effects that democratized design, specifically through desktop publishing, had on visual identity.
Design has gotten better online in recent years, and many more people are handy at Photoshop/InDesign than they were two decades ago, but this philosophy was one common in the early desktop publishing age, when people commonly screwed up things like kerning, typographers' quotes, and so on.