Unrelated to the article itself: The login-wall on some random website I've never even seen before feels mildly disrespectful of my time. Kind of similar in vibe to making you download an app to order in a restaurant.

Very annoying. More and more sites work like that. Not visible at the start. It feels like being scammed a bit

Yeah, and not obvious immediately. Got reading few pages in before hitting that. Seems like very good article but left disgusted