He is full of crap.
Who cares whether it takes you one or three lines to add a button ?
And since there are plenty crappy Qt applications around, I'd say fundamental part is far from menu and widget cintrol code.
Also, he conveniently omitted all that dependency hell of Qt apps.
I get routinely into situation where two packages conflict about needed version of Qt stuff.
With enlightenment, it's easy. About all I need is EFL.