The thrust of the article seems to be “we had a good thing going, some of you took it too far, and I TOLD YOU if you kept taking it too far we’d all lose our good thing, and now look at what you’ve done”.

For what it’s worth, whenever one of those “lead generator”-type calls gets past my filters, I take their number and the number of whatever company they’re advertising and sign both of them up to a bunch of those lead generator websites