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1) I never said globbing was bad.
2) I never said "mv *.foo *.bar" was wrong as it is currently implemented
3) I never said "mv *.foo .bar" was wrong either

Of course not, you just said "if the globing were somewhere both the shell and the application could access it and control it's behavour, commands such as "mv *.foo *.bar" would actually have a chance of working".
Except that "mv *.foo *.bar" and "mv *.foo .bar" work.

4) It boggles my mind that anyone could think having two tools that do only slightly different things could be a good idea

Look who will talk about "Purely Academic Excercise" later. In the real world, people make other tools that make slightly different things, but are more specific, like mv and rename.

5) UNIX tools are not traditionally interactive

Like ed/ex, terminals ? Most are not, yes. I doubt that's a tradition.

6) You've completly flown off the handle and entirely missed the point of the article, the arguments raised within, my reply and no doubt, this reply as well

You just failed to explain how, like a good troll.

Well done. You qualify for your UNIX beard and certificate of "Approaching Computing as a Purely Academic Excercise"

And again, like a good troll, you forgot conveniently that I said I use the shell practically in my work.