> Yes, the article's insistence that anyone would have fallen for the phish, and that anyone who disagrees is simply "wrong," is unfortunate

I think that's overstated. This phishing attempt had some obvious red flags that many people here would have noticed, sure. So not everyone is going to fall for this phish.

But the principle is better expressed as "Everyone will fall for a phish", somewhere. Even you. Human engineering is human engineering and we're all fallible. All that's required is that someone figure out which mistakes you're likely to make.