Nothing is moralizing about it, it's a neutral fact, but people just don't like it being pointed out to them. By all means, drink if you want, but many people seem to think it confers some health benefit which has been debunked, that's all that this article is talking about.
There may have been a time when informed, intelligent people thought that alcohol had health benefits - but that time was many years ago now.
All of the claims about health benefits that I've seen were about other (families of) chemicals, rather than the ethanol itself.
Wrong.
Latest research says it cuts heart disease risk and increases other risks.