There's no big issue, and there hasn't been one for many years. Ext2/3/4fs read/write support has existed for a long time for Windows, and FUSE/Dokan has a work

There's no big issue, and there hasn't been one for many years. Ext2/3/4fs read/write support has existed for a long time for Windows, and FUSE/Dokan has a working NTFS driver with r/w support as well (also for a long time). It just doesn't work out of the box (though it does on some distributions). Its gonna take a while till this driver is mainline in Linux kernel, and till that Linux kernel is included in distributions (especially LTS). I haven't read The Register article, but in the past it has come to my attention they dramatize their articles, and I don't want to read such media.