It seems to me that they somewhat conflated 'deadlines' with 'goals' early on and then just ran with it. Edit: Any idea why this was downvoted? I've re-read it

It seems to me that they somewhat conflated 'deadlines' with 'goals' early on and then just ran with it. Edit: Any idea why this was downvoted? I've re-read it and I still think the author has slightly conflated these two things. That doesn't make the article value-less but it does help with my interpretation of it.