I'm not a subscriber so I'm not arguing it is or isn't worth paying for, but calling a site-wide subscription bad value based on the length of a single article

I'm not a subscriber so I'm not arguing it is or isn't worth paying for, but calling a site-wide subscription bad value based on the length of a single article is clearly missing the point, they're not expecting anyone to pay for a single article (even if you might think there ought to be a single article option).