LOL these are all garbage suggestions. What we really want is no new changes to the UX, but rather a focus on performance and tightening down system services to ensure less CPU and RAM utilization in addition to bug fixing.
Further, most people who use desktop systems, want a return to some older paradigms.
The person who wrote this article is out of touch with reality.
There are a plethora of ways to have pasteboard/clipboard history and even share it. Pastebot is my main choice, but PastePal is another good one.