There are no good instruments or bad instruments, only good or bad players. Every time I decide I hate an instrument, somebody comes along and plays it so well I go, "Oh! So that's what it's supposed to sound like! I don't hate it any more!"

But I do agree somewhat with the author's rating of the guitar, though I would definitely include electric guitar in the equation. The guitar is unusual in that there are far more people who play poorly, and don't seem to realze that they play poorly, than there are people who play well. With most instruments, one either achieves a modicum of proficiency or gives up entirely, but there are millions of people who say they play guitar who know five chords and how to pick out "Smoke on the Water".