Well, that one is pretty egregious but there are other blatantly misleading statements. I don't know what polygon is meant to be, but the author seems to be far more ideologically biased than SimCity ever was.

One example: "Scientific simulations, like those used to model climate change, don’t keep their formulas hidden in a black box because replicability is a big part of the scientific method."

But the black box nature of climate models was the core issue in one of the biggest disputes between sceptics and researchers of all time. It went to court and the researcher preferred to lose the suit than reveal his model (Michael Mann). The COVID model from Imperial College that justified lockdowns had to be extracted from the university via FOIA requests which were stonewalled for months. The scientist who wrote it openly claimed in interviews nobody except him understood the model equations, which were all entirely undocumented. Probably the author doesn't know these things, but it shows a rather naive misunderstanding of the true nature of science. Black box models that encode ideological beliefs are common throughout serious research.

The comment about how SimCity doesn't simulate race or gender is also rather ideological. The belief that race and gender are central to everything is both quite new, very much a view of the left and totally USA centric, but SimCity was designed to sell to international markets too. "Cities are built on history, politics, and racial bias" is the sort of comment that gives away the article for what it is: a complaint that a a popular video game wasn't woke. We learn more about Polygon's ideology than that of Will Wright.