This article have missed to cover about low fee newbies used to put to save cost on payments leading unconfirmed transaction for many hours. That will make them panic about bitcoin and they will start blaming bitcoin network for it and some may even opt out from the idea of using bitcoin again. 
You are forgetting the basic concept of bitcoin ,to enable micro transaction as well and without any restriction and with the increasing fees we are coming to a space where micro transactions are negligible and you need to input higher fees with every transactions and remember the price of bitcoin is increasing from its initial stages and transaction charges are increasing along with the price which is a strange mechanism .