That was a joke ;) Onramp regulators are the real answer, letting only 1 car merge into traffic at a time at a rate well under 1 every 2 seconds.
I found your article interesting in light of the popular traffic piece you mentioned, but ending it with jokey suggestions after a fairly serious analysis doesn't really make it clear if you're joking or not.
But hey, maybe @themodelplumber and I are the only two who thought you were serious.
It actually turned out to be harder to sustain a backup* * once I entered the metered areas. The reason? Metering limits the number of idiots on the road at a given time. I.e., my attempt at being intentionally stupid was mitigated because the meters prevented the road from nearing saturation. The little bit of wiggle room on the road made it relatively straight-forward to just route around me.
So yes, in one sense meters merely move the wait from one point to another but they also remove some of the interactive effects of human stupidity.
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoETMCosULQ "I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effectual as their strict construction." -- President Ulysses S. Grant's First Inaugural Address
* * No I did not intentionally prevent people from passing me. My beef is with the revenue centers that are the pre-emptive enforcement of low velocities--not with my fellow passer-motorists.