Clickbait doesn't (necessarily) apply to the quality of the content. It does, however, apply to the headline tease. "A <foo>", "This guy...", "A state...", etc., are all needlessly ambiguous phrases. They should be replaced with the subject they refer to.
Apparently Atlantic Monthly are joining a trend already beaten to death by the Washington Post. And again, there are quite good stories ruined IMO by exceptionally poor heads.
Seemed like an okay title to me. They summarized the article at a non-technical level. That's the same title I would have written to summarize it. Maybe I wouldn't have used the word "revolutionary", but I already ignore that word whenever I see it.