The author misses the point that Kolmogorov Complexity isn't meant to be used as a practical measurement, but is just a theoretical way to think about information. There is no way to measure a string's "Kolmogorov Units", but you can just generally agree that "abababababababababababababababababababab" is less complex than "ababaaabbabaabaababbbabaababbbaaababbbba".

If you really wanted a practical standard measure, the language would have to be simple Turing machine instructions, so that the language implementation isn't more optimized for expressing certain things (which is the problem discussed in the post).