This is classic hn dismissalism. The news article isn’t great, but it did a better job than you give it credit for in stating the significance. It linked the paper and talked about birch reactions.

I don’t read Science (the journal) regularly, but news articles like this function as flags for “there may be an new paper worth reading” so I go get it from everyone’s favorite repository of scientific papers. That’s the value.

If you want to critique the state of scientific news writing that’s fine but realize you’re just whining. The fact that it’s about science news isn’t that much different than political news.