You don't need to bring it up, is right there in the article. There are many use cases, and maybe to you per-core performance is paramount, but he's making the

You don't need to bring it up, is right there in the article. There are many use cases, and maybe to you per-core performance is paramount, but he's making the case that for the market Xeon-Ws are aimed at, cores are more important than 10% peak performance, otherwise you wouldn't be buying a 36 core monster to begin with.