This seems to imply that doNotTrack would have been successful for its intended purpose had it not been a default setting at one point, which feels like wishful thinking.
Sure, that aspect made it impractical for uncharacteristically privacy-minded companies in the space to support the header, but the vast majority of companies in the business of tracking and advertising would have ignored it anyways, because there's zero consequence for not doing so.
Anyways 95% of the time you just have to disable scripts from the websites to unbreak them.
do not track was never a good idea as respecting it was on a voluntary basis, meaning it was mostly an additional metrics to use to track and profile people who do not want to be tracked. It's a no brainer really that if you did not want to be tracked you should not enable it. Remember ghostery ? same thing all over again.