The countries with the best outcomes, as noted in the article, did not give money to individuals, but to businesses.

Direct payments to people let them squander it while businesses failed, leaving people unemployed.

UBI feeds consumption, not production, and they are not the same thing. Lots of production is B2B and other aspects far removed from the consumption of the pipeline.

Throwing a few trillion directly at people is popular but demonstrably not as well spent as other countries showed.

"Many governments staved off damage by paying businesses to keep workers employed"