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Basically article describes that thanks to the NAT you can have your own little garden where you can do whatever you want without caring what is happening in front of the NAT. I completely agree with that. No idea why I should care what is happening with ISP network, that's ISP problem not mine.

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That's what the ULA is for. You can do whatever you want with ULA and you don't need NAT to have that if you only use GUA for WAN comms.

Your device with ULA address either needs NAT66 to be able to talk outside or it is destined to talk only in LAN forever.

For WAN comms you give it a GUA address as I mentioned. Most of my v6-enabled devices have at least 3 IPs: one link-local, one ULA and one GUA. Some have 5 IPs, some more.

Which then creates double the amount of work in managing firewall rules, QoS policies etc.

Nah - NPTv6, as it plays nicer.

See RFC 6296 and RFC 7157.

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