This is a perfectly well-written article with great content, but I don't know why the author has to bring up sexism etc.
If we didn't have "Alice and Bob" and instead had "Albert and Bob", the trolls would say "oh look at this there's no diversity! they are oppressing people by getting rid of female names from examples!".
But we DO have "Alice and Bob". Alice even comes BEFORE Bob. But look at how people make up sexism stories about how this is an "oppression", and Alice and Bob are a couple.
I have never thought of Alice and Bob as a couple. Maybe it's your sick mind who want to monetize sexism, that came up with that imagination.