Very excellent points.

Now for a little conspiracy theory of my own. If I was a certain three letter agency interested in undermining bitcoin, I would look for a respected journalist in the community and figure out how to lean on them. Maybe find some dirt, threaten family, or just good old fashioned bribery. Then I'd have that journalist write this exact article. This is exactly what "they" want normies to think about bitcoin. Hopefully she is not compromised and is just misinformed.