"Conventional Wisdom" on Greece?

"Greece’s debts are not the problem, it is the state’s inability to reform", Simon Nixon, Business Comment, The Times, 30 August, 2018

"The conventional wisdom says that Greece has been a victim of sinister external forces. But the external forces that inflicted the greatest damage on Greece were foreign commentators who used Greece to fight ideological proxy wars while ignoring the country’s deep-rooted structural problems" - Simon Nixon, LinkedIn.

From a Twitter comment on the article:

"STOP inflicting more of your “conventional wisdom” damage to the already psychologically damaged people of GR. Write about Brexit instead".

Is the Greek state and its public administration still "dysfunctional",  "largely unreformed" and is the political class "backsliding"? Read on!