Well, the article says that almost everyone in Japan will say that quality = perfection. But wabi-sabi is definitely the aesthetic of imperfection. Maybe that is something older people and the ancient japanese people believe in?
wabi-sabi doesn't even really need to have anything to do with quality.
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How does that jive with wabi-sabi (which I've come to understand as roughly "rustic grace and worldliness")?
Well, the article says that almost everyone in Japan will say that quality = perfection. But wabi-sabi is definitely the aesthetic of imperfection. Maybe that is something older people and the ancient japanese people believe in?
wabi-sabi doesn't even really need to have anything to do with quality.