Fashion changes quickly over time, while good models of real-life processes are infrequently supplanted. For your argument to work, you need to prove that the

Fashion changes quickly over time, while good models of real-life processes are infrequently supplanted. For your argument to work, you need to prove that the original article is closer to a 1985 Cosmo article than it is to something like Clayton Christensen's 1995 article on Disruptive Innovation, which remains relevant today (or disprove one of the premises in my comment).