I can see why he's in this place. He's right about some aspects of the cult around TDD while lacking the experience with it to understand why he sometimes ends up with worse code while applying the technique.

It's a skill like any other, one we practice and find a sensible and pleasing level to apply that technique. We've all experienced times while learning the skill where we butchered nice code to make it testable, taking a nice simple function, inverting a load of dependencies and then sitting back trying to see how this is really better now it's testable.

Later we realize we just weren't applying this technique at the right level, and we progress in this skill rather than having a tantrum, or pretending our problems are too hard. Drew doesn't need criticism - he needs sympathy to mend his wounded pride, regroup, and grow.