It's based on "Go To Statement Considered Harmful", by Edsger Dijkstra: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful

Yeah, I swear this is being posted so often it’s becoming something I’m starting to ignore (kind of becoming the boy who cried wolf)

It feels like the more recent versions of these articles are more poorly written. This article, however, was much more reasonable.

You disprove your own point, this is from 1992