Is that good or bad? This article just made me feel like the author thinks that making people talk a certain way changes anything. Language evolves. Word use c

Is that good or bad? This article just made me feel like the author thinks that making people talk a certain way changes anything. Language evolves. Word use changes, can't the author see that "I feel like" literally means "I think that"? It just sounds a bit more polite and not so forceful.