Talk about head in the sand. CS is subsuming stats (not really) because computers are a, if not the, major driving force begind statistical advances. L1 regulation became a fad in stats because computational optimization could efficiently solve this non-smooth optimization problem. Engineers are now advancing algorithms and moving it to real world use, while statisticians are still re-searching their field and finding applications using existing algorithms. There is nothing wrong with application, but this means that they are not at the forefront of research and more importantly they have to wait for other people to solve their problems because they are no capable of inventing novel algorithms. When the world at the large relies on computers for every little thing and on computer scientists for a lot of scientific advances, is it really surprising that computer scientists are more prominant?

And computer scientists have plenty of rigor. NIPs conferrence is an AI/neuroscience conference that is now prestigious in stats as well. Some machine learning experts lack mathematical foundations but statisticians are not really good mathematicians either. Being able to regurgitate stat theorems and prove convergence in expection under two dozen conditions (no kidding; read average JASA papers) are not the hallmark of analytic rigor. Average stats Ph.D., even from top programs, lack thorough understanding of measure theory. Just look at standard stat textbooks; examples are aplenty (using statistical software), but proofs are nowher to be found. It is amazing how many statisticians are still using pseudo-inverses in numeric computation.

The statistical education is a problem. The biggest factor being the very software this article is promoting: R. It is an atrocious monstrocity. Perhaps statisticians can live with it. Fine, but don't expect good programmers coming out of using R for five years. Python would be far better. In the end, statisticians are not professional programmers, the same way accountants are not. I don't see too many accountants fretting CS is subsuming their field. Let us not forget, most statistical methods have their roots in other science and engineering fields, and they are not particularly bothered.