This is one of the few cases where I went from thinking the headline was clickbait to thinking it was an excellent way to draw a connection between high-level s

This is one of the few cases where I went from thinking the headline was clickbait to thinking it was an excellent way to draw a connection between high-level science and aspects of the world that lay people can easily connect with. It would be nice if the author used the section you quoted for something like a "see TL;DR below", but anyone who fully reads the article should get the connection at least.