Not a comment in regard to this article in particular, but I love Quanta Magazine. Just the right amount of detail for a non-scientist and consistently fascinating subject matter.
To me, I want to know who the authors are in the first paragraph. They deserve the credit. The famous professor quotes should come later.
In this case there is a link to the article in the first paragraph and as the article discusses the whole history of maximum flow finding the new and exciting developments in the second half is quite reasonable.
As someone who loves math but who only knows a little, I find the articles manage to convey the broad ideas quite well. What it is, why it matters. I could stand more detail, but I guess many others couldn't.