This is biased in favor of authors with long names (which they mention at the beginning of their Future Work section)
That's addressed in "Future work"!
Extra funny, considering it's written by Demaine and Demaine.
The only shortcoming is that they currently use opacity even if there is only one author. In that case, it would seem natural to render the text as-is.
Why does it contain half-redacted words?
They're not redacted. If you zoom in you'll just see a very large number of stacked names which is ironic (I thought the same for a second)