This is the worst bit:

  He added that he was being singled out for a paper that 
  was a chore to write and brought him no added prestige. 
  "Who cares? This is a review article," he says. "I'm 
  never going to write another one, because of this
  bullshit."

Review articles are invaluable, at least in my field. Collecting results that are disparate in time and space not only saves other researchers time, but the process of arranging the article often clarifies the presentation. (N.B. this probably only applies to theory-oriented fields.)

And it "brought him no added prestige"? It must have been pretty bad if no one noticed...