I don't think the author was claiming that significant number of people hold those assumptions. I thought the assumption was that the most people implementing QF believe that QF is optimal for their use case. However, the author's observed use cases tend to not match the preconditions for QF's optimality.
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By existing, so you mean “hold in reality?”
The point of the article is that the assumption that underly QF do not hold in reality.
I believe they were asking for evidence that (significant numbers of) people hold those assumptions.
I don't think the author was claiming that significant number of people hold those assumptions. I thought the assumption was that the most people implementing QF believe that QF is optimal for their use case. However, the author's observed use cases tend to not match the preconditions for QF's optimality.
Exactly.