This article is way out of date and wrong, although published recently (at least according to the timestamp).

Google's official position was published on 8 February here:

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/02/google-sea...

It's a much more nuanced position that can be summarized as "make sure you create good content, however you create it". A focus on quality, not process, is reasonable.

Disclosure: ex-Googler in search.