Yeah, got cut for brevity, but students definitely experience serious anxiety about even the five year horizon.
Lambda School is <5 years old. Pretty disingenuous man.
Overall, I think this was an insightful article, but cutting that out seems misleading, even underhanded.
But if the editor cut those 14 words out, it wasn't to make the article more concise, it was to make the audience more outraged and more likely to share that article with others -- thereby increase the number of page views.
Not that I would expect the author to admit that. The author can't speak to the intent of his editor, obviously. And even if he could, I don't think his editor would be too pleased with him if he did that.