Yes I entirely agree with gavwat - either you have completely misunderstood the aims of Houston or (more likely IMHO) there is a smidgeon of faux-outrage in this editorial

And at the risk of fanning the flames further I would say that we shouldn't be designing applications from a database perspective anyway, we should starting at the front-end then identifying domain models and behaviour as this gets you closer to the use cases you are trying to fulfil. From this perspective heavyweight database design tools don't make sense at all.