Sad to see that he doesnt mention the most major downside of modern nails: that theyre round in cross section and dont widen up the length of the shaft along one axis. This makes modern nails hold much worse than cut nails. Here is a great video that explains in detail about how much better cut nails are at holding and why:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rwcGXIORro

Interestingly for modern stick framing construction this isnt actually really a disadvantage due to torsion construction techniques.

This reads like it was written by AI.

Everything 'he's' written reads like it's written by AI.

It's a weird collection of topics, all in the same dry style. Definitely AI.

AI automating the process of getting a sockpuppet/sleeper account past reputation filters has got to be booming business.

Truly. Is it okay to flag submissions like this?

Oh. I assumed the whole point of the post was that it was written by AI and medium.com should be trusted less.

Now I'm not sure

When all you have is upvoted blog posts, everything looks like AI

farriers still use square nails