The author is a self-described "tech journalist" and it's not really news that most of them tend to be lazy and not really dive even surface-level deep into any

The author is a self-described "tech journalist" and it's not really news that most of them tend to be lazy and not really dive even surface-level deep into any topics. Author probably wrote the article with a deadline approaching fast, and editor said it was good enough, so published it became.