Do you disagree that a large factor in the reformation being more successful (and bloody) was the printing press? That there were similar, smaller, failed movem

Do you disagree that a large factor in the reformation being more successful (and bloody) was the printing press? That there were similar, smaller, failed movements beforehand seems irrelevant. I still don't understand why the author, in an anti new technology article, would cite the printing press and protestant reformation as an example of people being overly concerned about new technology. To me it seems like there were severe immediate consequences from that technology.