Not ever having met the gentleman who authored the article that seems to have bunched up so many panties, I can only go by his online profile, background and other written material.
His background as a reserve USAF combat arms instructor, and some acceptable degree of hands-on experience and sufficient trigger time in competition venues, would seem to grant him the right to have formed some opinions along the way.
Being a young man in his 30's it's understandable that he might use somewhat different terminology when it comes to "service revolvers" and "compact revolvers", meaning not calling them duty revolvers or snubs.
The recent article strikes me more as an addendum to previous articles he's written on revolvers, rather than something intended to be an in-depth examination of the subject. Rather like referencing an earlier collection of thoughts, and adding some new changes that have come along in the subject, like some new guns and reconsidering calibers.
Probably interesting reading for beginners and neophytes. Nothing wrong with that.
Many of the well-aged and well-seasoned modern experts around today were also that young at some point, you know.
Us older revolver shooters, and especially those of us who carried duty revolvers and off-duty revolvers working in LE, might wonder about some of the perspectives younger shooters think they've "discovered", but we were also the new kids on the block in our early days. I remember when some folks still argued against using barrels as short as 4" for duty revolvers, and felt that only 5-6+" barrels were really duty-worthy. I worked with my fair share of senior guys who carried long-barreled revolvers on-duty.
Times always move on and change, and looking at any subject with both young and old eyes can result in different people (and age groups) looking at the same subject and seeing different things.
No biggie.
Matter of fact, I was just having a conversation a little while back with a current LE firearms instructor. I've known him all the time he's been an instructor, and he's reaching the point of becoming a senior instructor (15 years?). Anyway, the point is that he's discovered an interest in revolvers, especially S&W L-frames. He happily told me that he discovered that learning to shoot his L-frame in DA has made him a better pistol shooter with his plastic pistols, and that suddenly his plastic pistol triggers seem much lighter by comparison. The light comes on ...