AWK was designed by Kernighan who is on the record as subscribing to the Unix Philosophy. For all I know Aho and Weinberger also subscribe to the philosophy. I think its safe to say that AWK and the Unix Philosophy are compatible. I have never seen anything that says otherwise.
Was "rigid dogmas" in reference to the Unix Philosophy? I haven't ever seen it described that way.
My most readily available `man awk` spit out 1235 lines of text. Its namesake physical book is even longer. It is a Turing-complete language. It can execute arbitrary system commands with `system()`.
It is the antithesis of the Unix Philosophy. Always has been. And that's okay.
Needless to say, the industry found powerful tools like AWK (and SystemD) more useful than rigid dogmas.