Good lord, the very topic of the article is how sad it is that people are now pointing to human writing tropes and saying "must be AI", because AI over-uses those tropes. Maybe AI was used, maybe it wasn't. But we could have a modicum of charity.

I can't tell you how many times I've written "it's not X, it's Y", or "it's like X, but Y", or used em dashes over the years before AI. Probably thousands.