Again, with weak memory models, writes from another thread can be observed out of order due to hardware reordering, even without compiler optimizations. With weak memory models, there can be behaviors that correspond to no valid interleaving of two threads.
I am explicitly pointing out that what you are assuming, along with the author, what is often called sequential consistency (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential_consistency) hasn't been true of hardware for decades. It's a common misconception that most systems obey sequential consistency. Your comment just seems to repeat that again, and it isn't true. See here (https://preshing.com/20120930/weak-vs-strong-memory-models/) for a deeper explanation.