This article ignores the fact that many people outside the "founder-bubble" would happily trade less autonomy/self-determination for the peace of having someone (or an organization) telling you what to do and giving you a predictable path into the future.

Nothing in DAOs is new. Look at 30 year-old open-source projects, or books like "Reinventing organizations" from Laloux. And as such, it's fair to believe that DAOs will work to the extent that all other previous attempts at distributed organizations have.

In short: it works for some people, in some cases.