The point of the article seems more like NY Mag getting clicks by having one of their writers throw together a rebuttal to some recently popular tweets. I think the lack of seriousness is highlighted by the paragraph I quoted along with other bits from the author like this one:

>Thus it is possible that the social pathologies cited by Lorenz are preconditions for today’s mental-health crisis.

and

>It’s possible that Lorenz’s general intuitions may someday be validated.

and

>What we can say with confidence is that we do not know and that we owe it to those suffering in our mental-health crisis to be honest about that fact.

It’s clickbait meant to congratulate people that disagreed with Lorenz before they clicked on the article. Its substance is considerably less strong or confident than the headline assigned by the editor.