Look, I'm not trying to defend NFTs here, but let's view this from an artist's perspective that wants to hop on the bandwagon: you either pay around $70 to min

Look, I'm not trying to defend NFTs here, but let's view this from an artist's perspective that wants to hop on the bandwagon: you either pay around $70 to mint your NFT without caring about how and where your image is actually stored, or you pay $20,000 to upload your 500kb onto the blockchain (as the article mentions).