No I think that's unfair to the author. This is how they close the article: >> I bit my tongue, thought to myself “wow, what a stupid game to play”, and delete

No I think that's unfair to the author. This is how they close the article: >> I bit my tongue, thought to myself “wow, what a stupid game to play”, and deleted the draft. That's very much a sign of a realisation that the problem was their "initial flawed belief", as I read it.