Then you have people dying because of problems following GPS:

https://apnews.com/article/google-maps-lawsuit-north-carolin...

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/artic...

I'm honestly not sure if those types of events (and their less consequential but more common variants) support the claims of the article or refute them.

I feel like the article correctly identifies the problems with offloading cognition onto technology, but maybe mischaracterizes the scope of the risks, as well as how much this happens with or without modern technology.